Biography
Almudena Sevilla is a Professor of Economic and Social Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Director of the LSE Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub (WISPRRH). She serves as a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA) in Bonn and the CEPR. Her work is widely published in top-tier academic journals, making significant contributions to understanding gender disparities in labor markets and family dynamics. Prof. Sevilla is a former Chair of the Royal Economic Society Women's Committee and currently chairs the Royal Economic Society UK Women In Economics Network, where she champions gender equality in the economics profession. Prof. Sevilla holds a Ph.D. from Brown University, with a specialization in family and population economics and econometrics. Before her current roles at LSE, she held academic positions at University College London, Queen Mary University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Essex Institute for Social and Economic Research. She has also worked as an economic policy analyst for the Congressional Budget Office in Washington DC.
Current areas of research include:
- Gender Economics
- Time Use
- Labour Economics
- Education Economics
- Applied Econometrics
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