Giacomo Santangelo

Giacomo Santangelo, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics, as well as the director of the International Political Economy Program at Fordham University. He is an economist with training in quantitative and qualitative research and analysis with more than 20 years of teaching experience at various universities in the New York City area.

He earned his PhD and Master of Arts in economics from Fordham University, as well as a Bachelor of Science in economics from Seton Hall University. A frequent media contributor, Santangelo has appeared on NBC, CBS, and Fox News, as well as in U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, and Fortune. 

In February 2024, he was a guest on the Indian Parliamentary News program Global Debate to discuss the recent trend of tech layoffs. In 2016, he gave a TEDx talk on the unifying theory of all Disney animated films. In 2020, he published Macroeconomics: Big Things Have Small Beginnings, a macroeconomics textbook geared toward the Global Business Honors Program class he teaches at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham. Santangelo’s research focuses on international economic growth, trade, development, and labor.