Gene Grossman is the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton University and the Director of the International Economics Section.  He received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1976 and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.  Professor Grossman joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1980 and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Professor Grossman has received numerous professional honors and awards including the Harry G. Johnson from the Canadian Economics Association and fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.  He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1992 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.  Professor Grossman recently served a three-year term on the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association.  He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and of the Center for Economic Policy Research, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Economic Growth, the Review of International Economics, the German Economic Review, and several other professional journals.

Professor Grossman has written extensively on international trade.  He is well known for his work on the determinants of international competitiveness in dynamic, research-intensive industries, and in particular for his book with Elhanan Helpman entitled Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy.  He has also written (with colleague Alan Krueger) a widely-cited paper on the likely environmental impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement, as well as many other papers on U.S. and developing countries' trade policies.  His most recent writings examine the political forces that shape modern trade policy.  Professor Grossman and Elhanan Helpman collaborated on Special Interest Politics,  which was published by the MIT Press in 2001 and on Interest Groups and Trade Policy,which was published by Princeton University Press in 2002.  Their current research focuses on the causes and consequences of offshore outsourcing.

Professor Grossman is married to Jean Baldwin Grossman, a Senior Vice President for Research at Public/Private Ventures and a Lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.  The Grossman's have two daughters, Shari (age 22) and Dina (age 20).