Lisa M. Lynch is the 2025-26 Stone Visiting Scholar/Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University. Before her appointment at Harvard, she was the director of the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity at Brandeis and co-director of the Retirement and Disability Research Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. At Brandeis, she served as Provost (2014-15 and 2016-2020), Interim President (2015-2016), and Dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management (2008-2014). A past president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, Lynch is currently an elected member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association. Lynch has extensive public policy experience, having served as the chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor (1995-1997); director (2004-2009), and chair (2007-2009) of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; and chair of the Conference of Chairmen of the Federal Reserve Sysytem (2009). She has published extensively on the impact of technological change, organizational innovation (especially training), and unionization on productivity and wages, as well as the determinants of youth unemployment and race and gender differences in labor market outcomes. She has also been a faculty member at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, MIT's Sloan School of Management, the Ohio State University, and the University of Bristol. She received her BA in economics and political science from Wellesley College, and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics.