Mark Hugo Lopez
Mark Hugo Lopez is the Associate Director of the Pew Hispanic Center where he studies the political engagement of Latinos, Hispanics and the criminal justice system, Latinos and their experience with the economic downturn, and Latino Youth. Lopez also helps coordinate the Center’s national surveys. Additionally, he currently serves as a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, as chair of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management’s (APPAM) Diversity Committee, as the Second Vice President of the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) and as a member of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP). While a Professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, he served as the Faculty Chair of the Maryland Junior Summer Institute for minority students interested in careers in international affairs.
Lopez received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1996. He joined the Pew Hispanic Center in January of 2008.