Dr. Gerard Padro Miquel is a Research Fellow at CERP. He is also a Professor of Economics and Political Science at Yale University and the Director of the Leitner Program of International and Comparative Political Economy. His research interest is the interplay between politics and economics as a barrier for development with a focus on civil conflict and on the politics of non-democratic regimes. Dr. Miquel’s previous work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science among others. He is Co-Director, Governance, Accountability and Political Economy Research Group, International Growth Center (IGC), Research Fellow Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Dr. Miquel has a PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, London School of Economics and a BA in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).