1. Ricardo Hausmann was born on 1956 and is the former Director of the Center for International Development currently leading the Center for International Development's Growth Lab and is a professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University.
Ricardo Hausmann is a former Venezuelan Minister of Planning and former Head of the Presidential Office of Coordination and Planning.
Ricardo Hausmann co-introduced several regularly used concepts in economics including original sin, growth diagnostics, self-discovery, dark matter, the product space, and economic complexity.
Ricardo Hausmann's father was a refugee of the Holocaust who was born in Leipzig, Germany and was orphaned as a teenager.
Ricardo Hausmann earned a bachelor's degree in Engineering and Applied Physics and a PhD in economics at Cornell University.
Ricardo Hausmann is director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Ricardo Hausmann holds the George A Cowan chair at the Santa Fe Institute.
Concurrently with his position at CID, Ricardo Hausmann has held several positions at profit and non-profit organizations: he was a member of the board of Venezuela's full-service telephone company CANTV, of microfinance institution ACCION International, and of the advisory board of Abengoa, a renewable energy and engineering company based in Spain.
At CID, Ricardo Hausmann has concentrated his research efforts in two broad areas: the underlying determinants of macroeconomic volatility, financial fragility and crises; and the determinants of long run growth.
Ricardo Hausmann writes a monthly syndicated column for Project Syndicate covering economics of development.
The IDB cancelled its annual meeting in Chengdu, China after Ricardo Hausmann was denied a visa by the Chinese government.
On September 27,2019, Ricardo Hausmann resigned as ambassador to the IDB, writing on Twitter that "his academic duties at Harvard University are incompatible with the job at the IDB".
Ricardo Hausmann emphasized that he would be available to help Guaido "any way he could"; he recommended Alejandro Plaz as Venezuela's IDB representative, who was named to the post by Guaido.
Since 2014 Hausmann operates his private consulting firm, Ricardo Hausmann Consulting LLC, located in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Product Space is a tool for understanding the process of structural transformation and self-discovery, which Ricardo Hausmann introduced together with Cesar Hidalgo and Bailey Klinger.