Daisoon Kim is a Scholar at the Andersen Institute. He previously served as an Assistant Professor of Economics at North Carolina State University (2019–2026) and as a Research Fellow at London Business School (2018–2019). He is also affiliated with the Global Linkages Lab at Brown University and serves as a Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
His research sits at the intersection of macroeconomics, international finance, trade, and geoeconomics, with a focus on geopolitical risk, sanctions, global spillovers, production networks, and firm dynamics. His work provides actionable insights on systemic risk, market structure, and the evolving impact of artificial intelligence on global business.
Daisoon specializes in transforming complex, large-scale data into decision-ready insights, building structural economic models and end-to-end data pipelines to support strategy, risk management, and policy design. He has led research supported by the National Science Foundation and published in leading journals, including the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Journal of International Economics. His work is used by central banks and international institutions.
Education
- PhD, University of Washington | Economics
- BA, Sogang University | Philosophy