Catherine L. Mann

Biography

Catherine L. Mann is Chief Economist and Head of the Economics Department at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and Finance Deputy for the OECD G20.

She has been the Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance at Brandeis University and, from 1997 to 2011, was a Senior Fellow and visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Previously she served as a Senior International Economist on the US President’s Council of Economic Advisors and worked as a Special Assistant to the Vice-President for Development Economics/Chief Economist at the World Bank. She spent 13 years as a Senior Economist on the Federal Reserve Board.

She has authored or co-authored seven books, 60 articles, and numerous shorter pieces and testimony. She appears frequently on Bloomberg, CNBC and public broadcasting, and has been quoted in Businessweek and The Economist. Her research spans two topics – global imbalances, and the globalisation of technology and services.