Catherine L. Mann, PhD
Dr. Catherine L. Mann holds the Barbara ’54 and Richard M. Rosenberg Chair in Global Finance at the International Business School, Brandeis University and is a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Previously, she was a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. Washington policy appointments include Assistant Director in the International Finance Division at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Senior International Economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and Adviser to the Chief Economist at the World Bank.
Dr. Mann received her PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her undergraduate degree from Harvard University.
Her current research focuses on two related topics: US external imbalances, trade, international capital flows and the dollar; and information technology and services trade in global markets.
On the economic and policy implications of US external imbalances and the dollar, she authored Is the US Trade Deficit Sustainable? (1999). Subsequent notable articles include: “International Capital Flows and the Sustainability of the US Current Account Deficit” (2009), “Managing Exchange Rates: Evidence of Global Re-balancing or Global Co-Dependency?” (2004) and “Perspectives on the US Current Account Deficit and Sustainability” (2002).
On the economic and policy implications of globalization of information technology and services, she authored Accelerating the Globalization of America: The Role for Information Technology in 2006 and Global Electronic Commerce: A Policy Primer in 2000; as well as numerous articles, including “Assessing the Potential Benefit of Trade Facilitation: A Global Perspective” (2005) and “The US Current Account, New Economy Services, and Implications for Sustainability” (2004).
She appears frequently on Bloomberg TV and on National Public Radio, and is quoted in BusinessWeek, The Economist, and other major media. She has delivered keynote speeches and engaged in projects on technology and policy in countries ranging from China, Vietnam, Tunisia, South Africa, to Australia, Finland, France and Germany, among others.
