Dr. Peter F Orazem
Position
- University Professor
- Interim Department Chair
Peter Orazem is University Professor and interim Chair of Economics and Director of the Program for the Study of Midwest Markets and Entrepreneurship at Iowa State University. He is a 1977 graduate in economics at the University of Kansas and received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1983.
He served for two terms as a member of the Ames City Council. He served on the Boards for Mainstream Living and the Ames Convention and Vistors’ Bureau. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Kansas and a visiting scholar at the World Bank. He participated in the writing of the 2007 World Development Report and in the 2004, 2008, 20012, and 2015 rounds of the Copenhagen Consensus. In 2018 and 2024, he served as a Fulbright Fellow at the Univerza na Primorskem in Slovenia.
He served for two terms as a member of the Ames City Council. He served on the Boards for Mainstream Living and the Ames Convention and Vistors’ Bureau. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Kansas and a visiting scholar at the World Bank. He participated in the writing of the 2007 World Development Report and in the 2004, 2008, 20012, and 2015 rounds of the Copenhagen Consensus. In 2018 and 2024, he served as a Fulbright Fellow at the Univerza na Primorskem in Slovenia.
Contact
Email
pfo@iastate.edu
Phone
515-294-8656
267 Heady Hall, 518 Farm House Lane,
Ames,
,
IA
50011-1054
Social Media and Websites
Area of Expertise
- Labor-Public Economics
Education
- Ph.D., Yale University, 1983
- M.Phil., Yale University, 1980
- B.A., University of Kansas, 1977
Affiliations
- Secretary, Iowa State Zeta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
- Director, Program for the Study of Midwest Markets and Entrepreneurship
- Research Fellow, IZA: Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany
- Past Member, Ames City Council, 2010-2017
- Board Member, Mainstream Living, Inc.
Awards and Honors
- Challenge Paper author, Copenhagen Consensus, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2017 Haïti Priorise
- Fulbright Fellowship, Univerza na Primorskem, Slovenia, 2018
- Core Team: 2007 World Development Report
- Iowa State Dean's Lecture, 2012
- First Vice President, Midwest Economic Association, 2007-2008
- Koch Visiting Professor of Business Economics, University of Kansas, 2004-2005
- Phi Beta Kappa, Zeta of Iowa Chapter Secretary
- Board Member, Mainstream Living, Inc.
- Board Member, Iowa Chapter of the Fulbright Association
- National Merit Scholar