Lisa M. Lynch is Dean and Professor of Economics at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. She is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank and a member of the Governor's Council of Economic Advisors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She has been a faculty member at M.I.T., The Ohio State University, the University of Bristol, and Tufts University in the Fletcher school of Law and Diplomacy, where she also served as Academic Dean. She received her B.A in economics and political science from Wellesley College and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics.