Assistant Professor of Economics at INSEAD since September 2001, Vanessa Strauss-Kahn received a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. Previously, she worked at New York University, as a teaching assistant in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics Principles. She also worked for The World Bank, on a project focusing on social spending analysis for Asia as well as for the United Nations Development Program, where she assisted the Chief Economist of the RBA-Policy unit and conducted research on the Euro and the CFA Franc.

Professor Strauss-Kahn's current research focuses on firms' location decision across countries. More specifically, she aims to provide a contribution to the understanding of outsourcing decision and its impact on inequality between skilled and unskilled workers. More recently, she focuses on headquarters' locations within and across countries. Her fields of interest are International Trade, Economic Geography and Labor Economics.

International Trade; Economic Geography; Labour Economics.

Industrial Policy and International Competitiveness.