Pierre Sarte has developed a wide range of research interests. It explains something about both his own background and the way he became attracted to economics. Sarte, who joined the Richmond Fed in 1996, was born in Hong Kong and grew up in the South Pacific on the French territorial island of New Caledonia. His heritage is Indonesian and Italian and he attended boarding school and university in Canada before coming to the United States for graduate studies that led to his work at the Fed.

"All of my research stems from just wanting to understand the world a little better," Sarte says in his "Meet an Economist" video. "Every paper that I write, I feel like I gain something." Sarte says he discovered economics in his last year of high school, through a human geography class. "I was led to think for the first time about the diversity of environments that people lived in," he recalls.

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