Stephen Redding

Stephen Redding is a British-American economist. His research interests include international trade, economic geography, urban economics, transportation economics and productivity growth. Recent work has been concerned with firm heterogeneity and international trade, multi-product firms, the distributional consequences of globalization, agglomeration forces, and transport infrastructure improvements.

He has taught at the London School of Economics, the Yale School of Management and Princeton University, and was a Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard University; he has also worked at the Bank of England.

In 2025 he is the Kleinheinz Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics at Stanford University and director of the International Trade and Investment Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, and an associate editor of Econometrica and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. In 2025, he is also an international research fellow of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.