Lisa M. Lynch is dean and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. From 1995-97 she was the chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor.
She is currently a member of the Governor's Council of Economic Advisors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a member of the National Academies Committee on National Statistics. She has served as a director, deputy chair and chair of the Board of Directors for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston as well as chair of the Conference of Chairmen of the Federal Reserve System.
Her areas of expertise are labor economics, organizational innovation and applied microeconomics.
Lynch received her bachelor's degree in economics and political science from Wellesley College, her master's and doctorate in economics from the London School of Economics. Lynch is president-elect of the Labor and Employment Relations Association.
