Susan M. Collins
· Edward M. Gramlich Collegiate Professor of Public Policy; Professor of EconomicsUniversity of Michigan · Public Policy
Active 1979–2024
About
Susan M. Collins is the Edward M. Gramlich Collegiate Professor of Public Policy and a professor of economics at the University of Michigan, currently on extended leave. She is also the CEO and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Her academic career includes positions at Georgetown University and Harvard University, and she has been a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Collins's research interests focus on understanding and fostering economic growth in industrial, emerging market, and developing countries. She has served as a senior staff economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and has held leadership roles such as former dean of the Ford School at Michigan, as well as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. Her educational background includes a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University and a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Collins is actively involved in professional affiliations, including membership on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Council on Foreign Relations, and as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her work and leadership have significantly contributed to the fields of public policy and economics, with a focus on international economic growth and policy analysis.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Industrial organization
- Business
- Marketing
- Psychology
- Biology
- Library science
- World Wide Web
- Commerce
- Ecology
Selected publications
Remarks to the Retail Industry Leaders Association
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
1st authorCorresponding- Business
- Marketing
- Industrial organization
Susan Collins shared remarks with business leaders during a Retail Industry Leaders Association virtual meeting, covering aspects of the economy she discussed on February 28, 2024 at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
A researcher's Guide to Metadata Integration Increasing Discoverability of African Research
2022
- Computer Science
- World Wide Web
- Computer Science
Crossref, AfricArxiv, and the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) joined forces to host a series of workshops aimed at supporting discoverability or research in Africa through metadata and integrations between repositories and indexing platforms.
Frequent coauthors
- 7 shared
Rosa Clark
- 7 shared
Barry Bosworth
Brookings Institution
- 7 shared
Vanessa Fairhurst
- 5 shared
Kylie van Zyl
- 5 shared
Jennifer Kemp
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- 5 shared
Joy Owango
- 4 shared
Johanssen Obanda
- 3 shared
Aaron Flaaen
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Labs
Susan Collins LabPI
Education
- 1991
BA, Psychology
Stonehill College
Awards & honors
- American Economic Association 2025 Distinguished Fellow
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