The Global Adaptation Institute

Pablo T. Spiller is the Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Business & Technology at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, Research Associate, NBER and Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia University. He has been at the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and of the University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign, and has been a Sr. Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has been a Visiting Professor at NYU Law School, Universitè Paris I, Universidad de San Andrés and Tel Aviv University. His research interests lie at the intersection of economics, politics and the law. His current research is on the institutional foundations of public policy.

He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Economics, The Regulation Magazine, The Utilities Project, Board Member of the Journal of Comparative Studies, Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, the University CEMA, and of the Center for Global Prosperity. He has also been Associate Editor or Board Member of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Economics and Politics, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and the Journal of Policy Reform.

He has consulted for the World Bank, the InterAmerican Bank, the UNDP and multiple governments and private companies throughout the world on the design and implementation of appropriate regulatory policies, contract design and implementation, and international arbitration issues. He is the former President of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, and was a Special Advisor to the Bureau of Economics of the US Federal Trade Commission, and an elected Member of the Board of Directors of the American Law & Economics Association.