NBER profile: Thea M. Lee.

• Position: National Bureau of Economic Research - Brief Article

Thea M. Lee was elected to NBER's Board of Directors in September as the representative from the AFL-CIO. Ms. Lee is Chief International Economist in the Public Policy Department of the AFL-CIO, where she oversees research on international trade and investment policy. Previously, she worked as an international trade economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. and as an editor at Dollars & Sense magazine in Boston.

Ms. Lee received a Bachelors degree from Smith College and a Masters degree in economics from the University of Michigan. She is co-author...