Darryl McLeod

Darryl McLeod is an Associate Professor of Economics at Fordham University’s Rose Hill campus. His research focuses on development economics, particularly the political economy of inequality reduction in Latin America, migration impacts, and post-conflict economic recovery. He holds a Ph.D. and B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics. McLeod has contributed to UNDP missions, co-directed a Packard Foundation-funded study on Mexican immigrants in New York, and advised organizations like the IDB and OAS. His work spans publications on poverty measurement, remittances, and policy analysis.

Education: Ph.D. in Agriculture and Resource Economics (University of California, Berkeley). Academic affiliations include Fordham’s Economics Department and the Center for International Policy Studies (CIPS). Research interests emphasize Latin American development, migration, and social mobility. He has collaborated on projects addressing post-conflict recovery, the effects of minimum wage policies, and the role of financial innovation in poverty reduction.

Professional contributions include co-authoring the CGD Working Paper on Latin American inequality and contributing to UNDP’s Post-Conflict Economic Recovery. His teaching spans courses on Latin American economics, global poverty, and migration’s social justice implications. Current projects include a World Bank-sponsored study on the CFA Zone and research on real exchange rates and growth.