Government and Public Policy
Government and Public Policy is an interdisciplinary research cluster at New York University Abu Dhabi. Our mission is the comparative study of past and present governments and legal systems; political economy; and the determinants of public policy in the areas of social welfare, labor, taxation, finance, environment, trade, security, and extremism and terrorism.
Affiliated Faculty and Postdoctoral Associates
Leonid Peisakhin
Cluster Director; Associate Professor of Political Science
Wifag Adnan
Associate Professor of Economics
Elisabeth Anderson
Associate Professor of Sociology
Joan Barcelo
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Barthélémy Bonadio
Assistant Professor of Economics
Hervé Crès
Professor of Economics
Pavlos Eleftheriadis
Program Head of Legal Studies; Professor of Legal Studies
Jonathan Andrew Harris
Associate Professor of Political Science
Jean Imbs
Professor of Economics
Onoso Imoagene
Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy
Aaron Kaufman
Associate Program Head for Student and Curricular Affairs of the Masters of Interdisciplinary Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Associate Professor of Political Science
Bekhzod Khoshimov
Assistant Professor of Business, Organizations and Society
Benjamin Laughlin
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Samreen Malik
Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs; Associate Professor of Economics
Monica Marks
Assistant Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies
Veda Narasimhan
Assistant Professor of Economics
Abdul Noury
Associate Professor of Political Science
Berkay Özcan
Professor of Social Research and Public Policy
Christopher Paik
Program Head of Political Science; Associate Professor of Political Science
Giuliana Pardelli
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Anju Paul
Social Science Faculty Diversity Liaison; Professor of Social Research and Public Policy
Melina Platas
Associate Professor of Political Science
Adam Ramey
Associate Dean of Curricular Affairs; Associate Professor of Political Science
Blaine Robbins
Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy
Pauline Rutsaert
Associate Professor of Practice of Economics
Rahul Sagar
Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science
Sujeong Shim
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Peter van der Windt
Associate Professor of Political Science
Torsten Figueiredo Walter
Assistant Professor of Economics
Pavel Bacherikov
Postdoctoral Associate
Alexander Travis Barron
Postdoctoral Associate
Perry Carter
Postdoctoral Associate
Aashish Gupta
Postdoctoral Associate
Wonjeong Jeong
Postdoctoral Associate
Kurt Kuehne
Postdoctoral Associate
Sangmin Lee
Postdoctoral Associate
Georgia Michailidou
Research Scientist
Ashley Perry
Postdoctoral Associate
Lixia Ren
Postdoctoral Associate
Aditi Singh
Postdoctoral Associate
Hanbo Wu
Postdoctoral Associate
Contact Us
For inquiries, please reach out to Government and Public Policy Cluster Director Leonid Peisakhin.