Juan Felipe Riaño is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgetown University. He is an applied microeconomist with research interests spanning the fields of political economy, development economics, and economic history. His current research agenda focuses on understanding the determinants of state capacity in developing countries and the long-term impact of conflict and historical institutions on economic development.

More recently, he has been interested in the organizational economics of public sector institutions and the role of cybersecurity in modern states. Before joining Georgetown, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of British Columbia.