NBER profile: Margaret S. McMillan.

Margaret McMillan is an associate professor of economics at Tufts University and a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment. She holds a B.A. in mathematics and economics from Boston University, an M.P.A. from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.

McMillan was appointed the Director of the Development Strategies and Governance Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute in 2009. Before joining a university faculty, she had taught math in the Republic of Mali, managed a project for the World Bank in the United Republic of Tanzania, and worked as a financial analyst at Lehman Brothers.

McMillan is the recipient of numerous awards for her research. In...