Heidi Williams

Orvil E. Dryfoos Professor in Economics and Public Affairs

Dartmouth College

HEIDI WILLIAMS is the Orvil E. Dryfoos Professor in Economics and Public Affairs at Dartmouth College. Her teaching and research focus on understanding how policy changes affect innovation, productivity, and economic growth. Heidi works on contract as a research advisor with the Congressional Budget Office, is lead editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and is affiliated with the Institute for Progress and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings. Together with Ben Jones, she co-directs the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Innovation Policy working group. Heidi received her AB in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 2003, her MSc in development economics from Oxford University in 2004, and her PhD in economics from Harvard in 2010. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, and is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2015).