CSWEP Board Member
- Lisa M. Lynch
Lisa M. Lynch is the William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs and former Academic Dean at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. She received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College, and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Economic Policy Institute. From 1995-1997 she was the Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and she has been a faculty member at M.I.T., The Ohio State University, and the University of Bristol. She is currently Co-Chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Measuring Business Formation, Dynamics and Performance and a member of the executive board of the Labor and Employment Relations Association. She has been a member of the Federal Economics Statistics Advisory Committee, the President’s Advisory Board on Expanding Training Opportunities, the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Monitoring Labor Standards, the Board of Senior Scholars for the U.S. Department of Education's National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce, the U.S. Department of Labor's National Longitudinal Survey Technical Review Committee, the Expert Panel for the US Department of Labor’s Strategic Research Plan for the Workforce Investment Act, and the Census Bureau’s Boston Data Research Center Advisory Board. She was a Co-Editor of the Journal of Labor Economics and an Associate Editor of Labour Economics. She has published extensively on issues such as the impact of technological change and workplace practices (especially training) on productivity and wages, the determinants of youth unemployment, and the school-to-work transition.
