NOEL MAURER, PHD

Noel Maurer is an associate professor of International Affairs and International Business at the George Washington University and a former associate professor at Harvard Business School. 

Maurer earned his Bachelors in Arts in 1992 and Ph.D. in 1997 from Stanford University. Between 1998 and 2004 he worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at ITAM, a university in Mexico City. Maurer also worked at an NGO dedicated to helping small rural communities in Chiapas find new business opportunities.

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After a brief unexpected stint as a full-time employee of the federal government in 2002-03, he began work as an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School in 2005. In 2015, he took the opportunity to join the faculty at George Washington University. His primary research interest is how private actors defend their property rights under dictatorial governments or political instability.

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His areas of expertise include political economics, economic history, Latin America, and political instability and violence. He is the author is several peer-reviewed articles and books, including The Power and the Money, The Politics of Property Rights, Mexico since 1980, and The Big Ditch (Princeton).