Michael Blanga-Gubbay is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich (UZH), Department of Economics and a Senior Research Fellow at the Kühne Center for Sustainable Globalization at the University of Zurich. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles - the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES). During his Ph.D., Michael spent the 2018-2019 academic year at Harvard University, and the 2019-2020 academic year at Bocconi University. His research interest are international trade and political economics.