Susan M. Collins

Susan M. Collins is a Professor of Economics at Georgetown University and a
Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, where she is works parttime. Her area of expertise is international economics (including issues in both macroeconomics and trade). Her research interests center on exchange rate regimes in developed and developing economies, determinants of economic growth, and issues raised by increasing cross-national economic integration. Her current work explores implications of international capital flows to developing countries. Prior to her current positions, Dr. Collins was 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.