Lisa M. Lynch

Lisa 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’ provost and executive vice president of academic affairs from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2020; interim president of Brandeis from 2015 to 2016; and dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management from 2008 to 2014. Dr. Lynch is currently member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and the International Advisory Council of Bocconi University. She served as chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 1995 to 1997; director and chair of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; chair of the Conference of Chairmen of the Federal Reserve System; and president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association. In addition, she has served on the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the National Academies Committee on National Statistics. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Institute for Labor Economics, Germany. Dr. Lynch 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 topics. With extensive higher education experience, Dr. Lynch was a faculty member at Tufts University, MIT, the Ohio State University, and the University of Bristol. Dr. Lynch earned a bachelor’s in economics and political science at Wellesley College, a master’s and PhD in economics at the London School of Economics and received an honorary doctorate from Regis College in 2011.