School's Female Economist - 2025

Dona Economista 2025

Every two years, the Faculty of Economics and Business of the UAB wants to recognize and highlight the work and contributions to the fields of economics and business of exceptional women who not only have a notable academic career, but have also stood out for their public services in favor of the community and the well-being of society.

You can visit the gallery of Women Economists selected in recent years in the corridor leading to the Social Sciences Library.

14/03/2025

Christina D. Romer
(Alton, Illinois, 1958)

Christina Romer (née Duckworth; Alton, Illinois, 1958) received her PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. Upon completing her studies, she joined the Department of Economics at Princeton University as a professor, and in 1988 she joined the Department of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, where she became a full professor in 1993. She is currently the Garff B. Wilson Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.

As an economist and economic historian, Christina Romer has published more than 50 research articles on topics related to the study of the effects of fiscal policy, the identification of monetary shocks, the determinants of US macroeconomic policy, economic fluctuations throughout the 20th century, and the causes of the Great Depression. Her most recent work focuses on the study of the impact of government fiscal policy on economic growth.

In January 2009, Romer was appointed chairwoman of the Obama administration's Council of Economic Advisors for her deep knowledge of the Great Depression, a position she held until September 2010.

Among Professor Chrisitna Romer's achievements are also the vice presidency of the American Economic Association, being a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Fellow of the Econometric Society, the award for teaching excellence from the University of California at Berkeley, and the directorship of the Monetary Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).