Biography
Term of appointment: 1 September 2024 - 31 August 2027
On 18 March 2024, Catherine L Mann was reappointed for a second term.
In addition to her role on the Monetary Policy Committee, Catherine's academic and research affiliations include professor of the practice at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, and honorary professor at the University of Manchester and the Productivity Institute. She was in the first cohort of fellows of Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Royal Economics Society.
Before her appointment, Catherine was global chief economist at Citibank (2018 to 2021) and the chief economist, head of the economics department and G20 finance deputy at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2014 to 2017). Before that, she was Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance at Brandeis University, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and assistant director in the international finance division at the Federal Reserve Board. She also worked at the World Bank and the Council of Economic Advisers at the White House.
Catherine is a member of the Society of Professional Economists in the UK, as well as the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Economic Association in the US, among others. Previously, she was chair of the Economic Advisory Committee of the American Bankers Association, a member of the executive board of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, on the board of the National Association for Business Economics and of the advisory committees of the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, Boston and New York.
Catherine's research has focused on international economic relationships and outcomes, covering trade, finance, climate, productivity and inequality. She has authored or co-authored seven books, more than 60 articles and several shorter pieces and testimony.
She has an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
