Chief Economist — Adriana Kugler
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Adriana Kugler is Chief Economist to U.S. Labor Secretary, Hilda L. Solis.
She is currently on leave from her position as Full Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University. Dr. Kugler is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Labor Studies program. She is also a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) in London, and the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. She serves on the Editorial Boards of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Labour Economics, and Economia.
Dr. Kugler has published widely in leading economics journals about the impact of public policies on employment and earnings. She has also written on the topic of immigration and its impacts on both receiving and sending countries. Her work has been covered in both print and television media, and her work has been featured in leading world economic reports.
Dr. Kugler was the 2007 recipient of the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association, in recognition of her research contributions to the field of labor and industrial relations.
Dr. Kugler earned a B.A. in economics and political science with First Class Honors from McGill University and her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
