Marc-Andreas Muendler, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. His fields of interest include international trade, international finance, and development economics. Dr. Muendler has worked as a Consultant to the World Bank and private businesses, and as a Consulting Researcher for the Brazilian labor Ministry, the Brazilian census bureau, the German central bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dr. Muendler was a Peter B. Kenen Research Fellow at Princeton University in 2008-09. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Muendler conducts research into local impacts of global markets. In the area of international trade Marc Muendler investigates how globalisation affects local industries and labour markets. For industrialised countries, Muendler studies the formation and operation of multinational enterprises and their impact on labour markets in Germany and Sweden. In the area of international finance Muendler analyses the reasons for investors to acquire information and how private information and public transparency affect financial markets.