Annual Mullen Lecture with Dr. Heidi Williams, Dartmouth College

Heidi Williams
Professor of Economics
Dartmouth College

Innovation and Productivity Policies: a Budgetary Perspective

Heidi Williams is a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. She is the Director of Science Policy at the Institute for Progress, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington DC. Together with Paul Niehaus, she co-chairs J-PAL’s Science for Progress Initiative; together with Ben Jones, she co-directs the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)’s Innovation Policy working group. Heidi is lead editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, a nonresident senior fellow at the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings, and a visiting scholar at the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School.