Lisa Lynch
Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University
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Lisa M. Lynch, is the Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy in Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Previously, she served as Brandeis University's Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs from 2014-15 and 2016-2020, Interim President of Brandeis University from 2015 to 2016, and Dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management from 2008 to 2014. Lynch is currently a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and the International Advisory Council of Bocconi University. She has served as chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor (1995-1997); director (2004-2009), chair (2007-2009) of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; chair of the Conference of Chairmen of the Federal Reserve System (2009); and president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (2013-2014). In addition, she has served on the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (2008-2015) and the National Academies Committee on National Statistics (2009-2015). She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at IZA (Institute for Labor Economics, Germany). She has published extensively on the impact of technological change and organizational innovation (especially training) on productivity and wages, the determinants of youth unemployment, and the school-to-work transition, among other issues. She has been a faculty member at Tufts University, MIT, the Ohio State University, and the University of Bristol. Lynch earned her BA in economics and political science at Wellesley College, and her MSc. and PhD in economics at the London School of Economics.
Education
- London School of Economics and Political Science
Ph.D. - London School of Economics and Political Science
M.Sc. - Wellesley College
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Organizational Affiliations
- Director, Institute for Economic and Racial Equity, Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
- Affiliated Faculty, Department of Economics, Brandeis University
Past Affiliations
- Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University (United States, Columbus) - OSU
- Assistant Professor, University of Bristol (United Kingdom, Bristol)
- Chief Economist, United States Department of Labor (United States, Washington D.C.) - DOL
- William L. Clayton Chair of International Economic Affairs, Tufts University (United States, Medford)
- I.R.I. Career Development Chair in Industrial Relations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States, Cambridge) - MIT
- Provost, Brandeis University
- Interim President, Brandeis University
- Provost and EVP for Academic Affairs, Brandeis University
- Dean, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
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