IBD Welcomes New Director, Dr. Lindsay Oldenski

IBD welcomes our new Director, Dr. Lindsay Oldenski, as of July 1, 2025. She is an associate professor of international economics in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Dr. Oldenski has taught her class “MNC & Global Value Chains” for the Landegger Program for many years. She is also the Joseph and Abigail Baratta Professor.

She received her PhD in economics from the University of California, San Diego and her Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Dr. Oldenski taught at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and California State University, San Marcos. She has also served as a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, an economist at the U.S. Department of Treasury, an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and a consultant in the biotech industry. Dr. Oldenski conducts research on international trade and multinational organizations. She uses firm-level data to explain and predict the offshoring patterns of multinational companies, as well as understanding the impact that offshoring has on both developed and developing countries. She has been awarded research fellowships from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Center on Pacific Economies, and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

IBD thanks our departing director, Dr. Rod Ludema, for his leadership for these past five years! Under Dr. Ludema, IBD revised its application process for the certificate, hired several new full-time faculty, expanded our course offerings with a new Data Science requirement and the Mody Seminar on illicit finance, and revived the Global Business Fellows Program as a joint partnership between SFS and the MSB. He also expanded the Wallenberg International Fellows Program to include a post-doc exchange program.