Regular biography
Fikri Pitsuwan is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Economics at Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University, earned in 2021. Prior to his current position, he served as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at ETH Zürich and was a 2021 Global Priorities Fellow at the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. His academic interests include Game Theory, Public Policy, and Microeconomic Theory. Pitsuwan is affiliated with the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and teaches courses such as Introductory Macroeconomics and Independent Study in Economics.
Scholar-generated biography
Fikri Pitsuwan is an economist specializing in Economic Theory and Game Theory. His research explores the intersection of economic policy, strategic behavior, and institutional design. Pitsuwan's work includes analyses of profit-cap policies in industries like Big Pharma and Big Tech, the design of bug bounty schemes, and the role of public good provision in democratic systems. He also investigates intergenerational risk, sequential cooperation and competition, and the use of artificial bugs in cybersecurity. His research emphasizes the application of game-theoretic models to real-world problems, particularly in areas such as volatility, resilience, and ethical behavior in economic systems.