Dr. Geoffrey Ditta

Geoffrey Ditta holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Lyon 2 Lumière (France). He has served as an Invited Research Professor in Geopolitics and Economic Complexity at the Harvard Kennedy School (2025) and previously as a Visiting Professor at Sorbonne University (2021). He is currently Professor of Economics at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and a Fellow of the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University. With more than a decade of international academic and professional experience, his career spans research, higher education, international development, and industry. His international experience includes a mission with the United Nations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, research at the United NationsEconomic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Mexico City, managing French companies in Chile under the supervision of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and leading the industrial division of the Spanish multinational COMSA Corporation in Mexico. His research focuses on economic complexity, international business, geopolitics, global value chains, and sustainable economic development. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and regularly presents his work at international conferences while collaborating with universities and international organizations.