NBER profile: Kristin J. Forbes.

Kristin Forbes is an NBER Research Associate in the Program on International Finance and an Associate Professor of Economics at MIT's Sloan School of Management. She received her B.A., summa cum laude with highest honors, from Williams College and her Ph.D. in Economics from MIT. Her research focuses on policy-related questions in international finance and development, with recent work on international capital flows, capital controls, financial market contagion, and currency crises.

Over the last few years, Forbes has rotated between academia and economic policy positions in the U.S. government. She served a term as a Member of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers (where she was the youngest person to ever hold this position). She also worked in the U.S. Treasury Department as the Deputy Assistant...