Susan M. Collins

Susan M. Collins is Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan.  Her area of expertise is international economics (including issues in both macroeconomics and trade). Her research interests center on determinants of economic growth, and issues raised by increasing cross-national economic integration.  Dr. Collins’ current work compares growth experiences in China and India.  From 1992 to 2007, she was Professor of Economics at Georgetown University with a part-time affiliation as a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution.  Her previous employment was as an Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She served as a senior staff economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers during 1989-90. Dr. Collins chaired the American Economics Association (AEA) Committee on the Status of Minority Groups during 1994-98. She is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute for International Economics, and of the Advisory Editorial Staff of Economic Letters. Dr. Collins received her B.A., summa cum laude in economics, from Harvard University in 1980, and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984.