Peter Rodriguez
Dean and Professor of Strategic Management at Jones Graduate School of Business
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Education: B.S., Texas A&M University; MA, Ph.D., Princeton University
Peter L. Rodriguez is an associate professor of business administration, senior associate dean for degree programs and chief diversity officer at the Darden School. He teaches classes on economic growth and development, international business and international macroeconomics. Rodriguez is an economist and specializes in the study of international business, trade and economic development, with an emphasis on corruption. His research publications include theoretical explorations of international trade policies and firm behavior and empirical and practice-based studies of issues in international business and management.
Before joining the Darden faculty, he was on the faculty of Mays Business School and the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. He previously taught at Princeton University. He also worked for several years as an associate in the Global Energy Group at JPMorgan Chase. He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence in classes such as traditional international macroeconomics and business/government relations.
Jones Graduate School of Business
Peter Rodriguez is dean of the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. He is also an economist and professor of strategic management and teaches classes on global macroeconomics and economic growth and development. He comes to Rice from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business where he was a professor, senior associate dean for MBA Programs and chief diversity officer.
Academics are an intellectually curious breed, but Peter’s goes well beyond his research interests of corruption, globalization, economic development, and social institutions. To start with, he has a self-described tinkerer’s mindset and would’ve been an engineer if he hadn’t been an economist. His fascination with social media is evident in his twitter, Instagram and snapchat accounts. He loves photography, both technically and artistically, and lately, drone photography. He is also a native Texan, hailing from Kilgore. With his family, Peter is taking Houston by storm – sports teams, food, culture, and soon a house once they settle on the right neighborhood.
A recipient of numerous teaching awards from Princeton, Texas A&M and the University of Virginia, Peter taught short courses on global economics to the Canadian Heads of Ministries and as part of executive education teaching teams to the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy and to multinationals such as Rolls Royce, Harris Corporation, Lockton and AES. He has developed video and audio courses on globalization and growth for The Great Courses and served on the faculty of Semester at Sea.
Peter holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a B.S. in economics from Texas A&M University. He worked for several years as an associate in the Global Energy Group at JP Morgan Chase, here in Houston and in New York.
Peter and his wife Kathleen have three children, Gabriella, Sam and Michael. You can follow him on Instagram and Twitter.
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