Chandler Stolp
Faculty Research Associate — Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University
Associate Professor, LBJ School; Director, Brazil Center; Director Inter-American Policy Studies Program
Contact
- E-mail: stolp@mail.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512.471.8951
- Office: SRH 3.310A
- Campus Mail Code: E2700
Biography
Chandler Stolp has a Ph.D. in social and decision sciences and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University. He is an applied statistician and economist with interests in research methods, policy decisionmaking, regional development, and U.S.-Latin American relations. His research focuses on western hemispheric economic integration, regional economics, and public sector productivity.
He serves as the Director of the Brazil Center at the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) and also of the Inter-American Policy Studies Program, a joint venture of the LBJ School and LLILAS. He chaired a state task force in the early 1990s on the impacts of the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement on Texas manufacturing and currently serves at UT's Principal Investigator for a multi-year USAID subcontract to assist the government of El Salvador in strengthening the operation of its legislative branch. Dr. Stolp is the author or coauthor of scores of scholarly publications and has worked as a statistical and economics consultant in numerous public and private agencies in Texas and throughout Latin America.
At the LBJ School, he offers courses in applied statistics, research methods, economic integration, and Latin American development. He also serves as Assistant Graduate Adviser and Coordinator of the School's Ph.D. program.
