Heidi Williams, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
Innovation and Productivity Policies: a Budgetary Perspective
UMBC's annual Mullen Lecture is part of the Fall 2024 Social Sciences Forum.

Heidi Williams is a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. She is the Director of Science Policy at the Institute for Progress, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington DC. Together with Paul Niehaus, she co-chairs J-PAL’s Science for Progress Initiative; together with Ben Jones, she co-directs the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)’s Innovation Policy working group. Heidi is lead editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, a nonresident senior fellow at the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings, and a visiting scholar at the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School.

Admission is free. This lecture will be recorded.

The Mullen Lecture is organized by the Department of Economics and co-sponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship.

Photo provided by Heidi Williams.