Adriana Kugler

Adriana Kugler
Chief Economist
U.S. Department of Labor
In office
September 6, 2011 – January 4, 2013
President Barack Obama
Preceded by Betsey Stevenson
Succeeded by Jennifer Hunt
Personal details
Born October 23, 1969
Political party Democratic Party
Alma mater McGill University (B.A.)
UC Berkeley (Ph.D.)

Adriana Kugler is a Colombian American Economist and Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University.[1][2] She served as the Chief Economist to U.S. Labor Secretary, Hilda L. Solis, from September 6, 2011 to January 4, 2013.[3][4]

Education

Adriana Kugler received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from McGill University in 1991, graduating with First Class Joint Honors in Economics and Political Science. In 1997, she was awarded her Ph.D. by the University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D.; her advisors were Nobel Laureate George Akerlof, Nada Eissa, and David K. Levine.[5]

Academic Appointments

Adriana Kugler is currently Vice-Provost of Faculty, full professor of Public Policy and Co-director of the International Summer Institute on Policy Evaluation at Georgetown University.[1][6] Before joining the faculty at Georgetown, Kugler was a Full Professor in the Economics Departments of the University of Houston and an assistant professor at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.[6]

Kugler is a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Labor Studies program [7] and a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London,[8] the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn,[9] the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) in London,[10] and the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University[1][4][11]

Kugler also serves on the Editorial Boards of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review,[12] The Journal of Labor and Development,[13] the British Journal of Industrial Relations,[14] Labour Economics,[15] Applied Economics Quarterly[16] and Economia.[17]

Research Awards

Kugler was the 2007 recipient of the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association, in recognition of her research contributions to the field of labor and industrial relations.[18] In 2010, one of her papers, "Trade Reforms and Market Selection: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in Colombia" won first prize for Best Contribution in the area of “Globalization, Regulations and Development” from the Global Development Network.[19][20][21]

She has also been the recipient of numerous research grants for research in her areas of interest which include the role of public policies, unemployment, and immigration on labor markets and policy evaluation in developed and developing countries. [6][19]

Selected Publications

Featured in the Houston Chronicle on September 12, 2009, the San Antonio Express News on September 12, 2009, and the Houston Business Journal on September 11, 2009.
Featured in the World Development Report 2006 and 2007.
Lead Article in Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2008, 90(2).
Featured in the World Development Report 2005.
Featured in the World Development Report 2005, IDB’s Report on the Economic and Social Progress of Latin America 2004, and in the OECD’s Employment Outlook 2004.
Featured in the World Development Report 2005.
Featured in the World Development Report 2006 and 2007, and IDB’s Report on the Economic and Social Progress of Latin America 2004.
Featured in the World Development Report 2004.
Reprinted in Andrew Morris and Samuel Estreicher, Eds., Cross-Border Human Resources, Labor and Employment Issues. Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2005.
Featured in the Economist’s Economics Focus July 7th 2005, World Development Report 2007, Expert Report to United Nations’ National Assembly on International Migration and Development 2008.
Reprinted in Enrique Bour, Daniel Heymann and Fernando Navajas, Eds., Latin American Economic Crisis. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004.
Featured in the Presidential Address of the Society of Labor Economists 2001.

For the above articles, as well as more complete lists of Published Articles and Research Papers (and links to her research papers), reference may be made to Kugler's internet pages at the University of Houston and Georgetown Public Policy Institute.[22][23][24]

Media Coverage

Kugler's academic and policy work has been covered in print media as well as radio and television, including The Washington Post, The Economist, NPR, NBC Latino, Fox Business, the Financial Times, Telemundo, Univision, NTN24, CNNMoney, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Nightly Business News, amongst others. Kugler has also been called on to testify before Congress on issues such as immigration and the economy.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "AEI". Retrieved 20 August 2012.
  2. ↑ Announcement - Labor Department appoints CLAS Professor Adriana Kugler as Chief Economist http://www.georgetown.edu/story/adriana-kugler-appointment.html
  3. ↑ "Latino Unemployment". Retrieved 20 August 2012.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 U.S. Department of Labor http://www.dol.gov/_sec/aboutosec/bio-kugler.htm
  5. ↑ Adriana Kugler C.V. posted at Public Policy Institute Website http://www18.georgetown.edu/data/people/ak659/cv.pdf
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 http://Georgetown Faculty Page, Adriana Kugler explore.georgetown.edu/people/ak659/?PageTemplateID=364
  7. ↑ National Bureau of Economic Research. "Adriana D. Kugler". Retrieved 19 July 2012.
  8. ↑ Centre for Economic Policy Research. "Professor Adriana D. Kugler". Retrieved 19 July 2012.
  9. ↑ Fellows of the Institute for the Study of Labor http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/personnel/photos/index_html?key=157
  10. ↑ External Fellows of CReAM http://www.cream-migration.org/personneldetail.php?id=59
  11. ↑ Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/center_search.html
  12. ↑ Editorial Board of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ilrreview/staff.html
  13. ↑ http://izajold.iza.org/?page=16
  14. ↑ Editorial Board, British Journal of Industrial Relations http://www.wiley.com/bw/editors.asp?ref=0007-1080
  15. ↑ Editorial Board of Labour Economics http://www.journals.elsevier.com/labour-economics/editorial-board/
  16. ↑ Applied Economics Quarterly Editorial Board http://aeq.diw.de/aeq/index.jsp?n=1000&p=1&c=board
  17. ↑ Economia, Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), Editorial Board http://www.cid.harvard.edu/Economia/kugler.htm
  18. ↑ Labor and Employment Relations. Association. "LERA: John T. Dunlop Scholar Award". Retrieved 19 July 2012.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Georgetown Public Policy Institute Bio http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/ak659/?PageTemplateID=364
  20. ↑ Global Development Network Research Papers http://cloud2.gdnet.org/~research_papers/Trade%20reforms%20and%20market%20selection:%20evidence%20from%20manufacturing%20plants%20in%20Colombia
  21. ↑ The full paper is available at Global Development Network http://depot.gdnet.org/newkb/submissions/Eslava_paper_2.1.pdf
  22. ↑ http://www.uh.edu/~adkugler/research.htm Adriana Kugler, University of Houston, Research Section
  23. ↑ http://www.uh.edu/~adkugler/AKugler_CV.pdf Adriana Kugler, University of Houston, Curriculum Vitae
  24. ↑ http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/ak659/?action=viewpublications&PageTemplateID=364 Adriana Kugler, Georgetown Public Policy Institute