Brian Kovak

Brian Kovak is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2010 and his research focuses on the labor market impacts of international trade, migration, and technological change. His research has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and Demography. Prof. Kovak is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Fellow of IZA, and serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of International Economics. His research has been covered by various media outlets including the Atlantic, Financial Times, LA Times, Slate, and the Wall Street Journal. In 2014 he was awarded the IZA Young Labor Economist Award for the best peer-reviewed journal publication in labor economics by authors under age 40 and in 2019 he was awarded a Carnegie Fellowship.