Lisa M. Lynch is the Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University. She served as Brandeis University's Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs (2014-15 and 2016-2020), Interim President of Brandeis University 2015-2016), and Dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management (2008-2014). Lynch is currently the Stone Visiting Scholar/Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Malcom Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. From 2023-2025 she was director of the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity, the Heller PhD program, and co-director of the Retirement and Disability Research Center at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. She has served as chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor (1995-1997); director (2004-2009), chair (2007-2009) of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; chair of the Conference of Chairmen of the Federal Reserve System (2009); Member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the New York Federal Reserve Bank (2018-2024); and president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (2013-2014). She has published extensively on the impact of technological change and organizational innovation (especially training) on productivity and wages, race and gender differences in labor market outcomes, the determinants of youth unemployment, and the school-to-work transition, among other issues. Lynch earned her BA in economics and political science at Wellesley College, and her MSc. and Ph.D. in economics at the London School of Economics.