lisa lynch
Dean and Professor of Economics, Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science
Lisa M. Lynch, professor of economics, has served since July 2008 as dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.
She also serves as chair of the board of directors of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank and as a member of the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Readiness Finance Commission and the executive board of the Labor and Employment Relations Association.
Lynch previously was the William L. Clayton Professor of International Economics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she also served as academic dean from 2001 to 2004. She was chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 1995 to 1997 and has held faculty positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University and the University of Bristol, England.
She has published extensively on issues such as the impact of technological change and organizational innovation (especially training) on productivity and wages, the determinants of youth unemployment and school-to-work transition.
Lynch holds both a master of science and doctor of philosophy in economics from the London School of Economics. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from Wellesley College.
