Ann Harrison is the Director of Development Policy in the Development Research Group. Prior to assuming this position in January 2010, she was the manager of the Trade Team in DEC. Prior to joining the World Bank in 2009, she was a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and affiliated with the International Growth Centre in London. She received her BA from UC Berkeley and a PhD from Princeton University. Ms. Harrison was in the Young Professional Program at the World Bank, and previously taught at Harvard and Columbia Business School at Columbia University. Her research is in the area of international trade, foreign investment, and economic development. She has analyzed the impact of globalization on domestic labor markets, the linkages between productivity and trade reform, and the impact of foreign investment on host countries. She completed a book, Globalization and Poverty, for the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2007. Her publications have appeared in top economic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of International Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics and others. Her latest research analyzes the anti-sweatshop movement, the determinants of national labor shares, the impact of offshoring on wages and employment, the role of industrial policy in economic development, and the determinants of productivity growth in China and India.