Currently Provost at Brandeis University, Lynch earned her BA in economics and political science at Wellesley College, and her MSc. and PhD in economics at the London School of Economics. She served as interim president of Brandeis University from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016, provost from October 30, 2014 to June 30, 2015, and dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management from July 2008 to October 2014. Lynch is currently a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and has served as chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor (1995-1997); director (2004-2009), chair (2007-2009) of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; chair of the Conference of Chairmen of the Federal Reserve System (2009); and president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (2013-2014). In addition, she has served on the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (2008-2015) and the National Academies Committee on National Statistics (2009-2015). She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has published extensively on the impact of technological change and organizational innovation (especially training) on productivity and wages, the determinants of youth unemployment, and the school-to-work transition, among other issues.