Esteban Rossi-Hansberg is the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He has been a long-term consultant in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond since 2013. 

Rossi-Hansberg is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society. He has received the Alfred Sloan Research Fellowship, the August Lösch Prize, the Geoffrey J. D. Hewings Award, and the Robert E. Lucas Jr. Prize. He currently serves as lead editor of the Journal of Political Economy.

Rossi-Hansberg has published in the fields of international trade, regional and urban economics, and growth and organizational economics. He has collaborated with Richmond Fed economists Pierre-Daniel Sarte, Felipe Schwartzman, and Nicholas Trachter.