Judith Dean

Judy’s research focuses on international trade and economic development. Much of her work examines the relationship between trade and the environment. Using Chinese data, she explores the possibility that trade growth, foreign investment and production fragmentation may have beneficial effects on the environment. In other work, she studies global value chain trade, non-tariff barriers, trade preferences for developing countries, and the impact of trade liberalization on Indian poverty. Judy came to Brandeis from the US International Trade Commission (USITC) where she was a Senior International Economist in the Research Division of the Office of Economics. Prior to joining the USITC, Judy was Associate Professor of Economics at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, and Assistant Professor at Bowdoin College. She has been a consultant to the World Bank and the OECD, and a Visiting Scholar at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India. While at the USITC, she helped facilitate research collaboration with Tsinghua University and with the India Development Foundation. In 2024 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for International Economic Policy, George Washington University. Judy has served on the Board of Directors of World Relief, and the Board of Trustees of Gordon College. In 2020 she was named a Senior Fellow at the Rimini Center of Economic Analysis.