Rene W. Aubourg Adjunct Professorial Lecturer Public Administration and Policy
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Dr. Aubourg is a macroeconomic policy, public finance, and international development expert with over 25 years of experience advising governments, multilateral organizations, and research institutions. He has consulted for the European Union in Haiti and the IMF in Cameroon, Tunisia, and Rwanda, and advised governments across the Caribbean, including St. Kitts and Nevis, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.
He has been an invited expert at multiple Executive Analytic Exchanges on Haiti organized by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the National Intelligence Council. He has been a featured panelist at roundtables hosted by leading policy and research organizations, including the United States Institute of Peace, the Inter-American Dialogue, and the RAND Corporation. His expertise has also led him to serve as a guest speaker at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute.
Previously an Assistant Professor at Â鶹Æƽâ°æ’s School of Public Affairs, he later joined Ernst & Young LLP’s National Tax practice, developing econometric models to assess tariff impacts on the U.S. economy and conducting fiscal impact analyses for island economies. He has co-authored nearly a dozen thought leadership papers on these issues. From 2012 to 2014, he was appointed to the Fulbright Public Policy National Screening Committee, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, where he helped select candidates for prestigious Fulbright fellowships in public policy and international development.
He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), with a specialization in Quantitative Policy Modeling for Sustainable Growth and a graduate minor in Economics. He also earned two master’s degrees also from SPEA — one in Public Affairs (Policy Analysis and Public Finance) and another in Environmental Science (Environmental Risk and Decision Analysis). Additionally, he completed an Executive Program Certificate in Macroeconomic Policy and Management from Harvard University and holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the State University of Haiti.
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