Randall K. Filer

About Randall K. Filer

Randall Keith Filer (born January 14, 1952) is an American economist. Dr. Filer is an emeritus professor of economics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a senior scholar at CERGE-EI. He is a Trustee and past President of the CERGE-EI Foundation, a US-based nonprofit that supports economic education in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and a member (past Chair) of the International Faculty Committee at the International School of Economics in Tbilisi (ISET) in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is a research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, CESifo (Munich), the William Davidson Institute (Ann Arbor) and the Manhattan Institute (NYC). Professor Filer was the Founder and serves as President of the Economic Fundamental Initiative, an NGO dedicated to promoting economics literacy in the Western Balkans, Ukraine, teh South Caucuses and Central Asia. Professor Filer received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1979 where he was affiliated with the Industrial Relations Section and the Office of Population Research.