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 (1969-10-23) 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

Dr. Adriana Kugler is Vice-Provost for Faculty and a full professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy.[1][6] She was founder and co-director of the International Summer Institute on Policy Evaluation between 2010-2013. She served as chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor in 2011 and 2012, where she worked actively on developing policies and proposals on unemployment insurance, training programs, retirement benefits, overtime pay and minimum wages, immigration, disability insurance and occupational safety regulations. Prior to coming to Georgetown, she was a full and associate professor at the economics departments at the University of Houston and at 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] and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.[12]

Kugler has served on the editorial boards of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review,[13] The Journal of Labor and Development,[14] the British Journal of Industrial Relations,[15] Labour Economics,[16] Applied Economics Quarterly[17] and Economia.[18]

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.[19] 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.[20][21][22]

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][20]

Selected publications

Kugler's work has been published in the top general interest and specialized journals in Economics and Public Policy, including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic & Statistics, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Development Economics and the Journal of Policy Reform. Her research has been covered in multiple reports, including he World Development Report published by the World Bank, and the annual development reports published by the Inter-American Development Bank and the OECD.

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.
        Featured in EdNews Colorado, February 2012.

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.[23][24][25]

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,The National Journal, The Atlantic, US News& World Report, MSNBC, CNBC, The New York Times, BBC Mundo, 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 2 3 "AEI". Retrieved 20 August 2012.
  2. ↑ Announcement - Labor Department appoints CLAS Professor Adriana Kugler as Chief Economist "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-19. Retrieved 2012-09-08.
  3. ↑ "Latino Unemployment". Retrieved 20 August 2012.
  4. 1 2 U.S. Department of Labor "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-09-17. Retrieved 2012-09-08.
  5. ↑ Adriana Kugler C.V. posted at Public Policy Institute Website http://www18.georgetown.edu/data/people/ak659/cv.pdf
  6. 1 2 3 "Faculty Page, Adriana Kugler". Georgetown University: McCourt School of Public Policy. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
  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. ↑ https://www.americanprogress.org/
  13. ↑ Editorial Board of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ilrreview/staff.html
  14. ↑ http://izajold.iza.org/?page=16
  15. ↑ Editorial Board, British Journal of Industrial Relations http://www.wiley.com/bw/editors.asp?ref=0007-1080[]
  16. ↑ Editorial Board of Labour Economics http://www.journals.elsevier.com/labour-economics/editorial-board/
  17. ↑ Applied Economics Quarterly Editorial Board http://aeq.diw.de/aeq/index.jsp?n=1000&p=1&c=board
  18. ↑ Economia, Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), Editorial Board http://www.cid.harvard.edu/Economia/kugler.htm
  19. ↑ Labor and Employment Relations. Association. "LERA: John T. Dunlop Scholar Award". Retrieved 19 July 2012.
  20. 1 2 Georgetown Public Policy Institute Bio http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/ak659/?PageTemplateID=364
  21. ↑ Global Development Network Research Papers http://cloud2.gdnet.org/~research_papers/Trade%20reforms%20and%20market%20selection:%20evidence%20from%20manufacturing%20plants%20in%20Colombia[]
  22. ↑ The full paper is available at Global Development Network http://depot.gdnet.org/newkb/submissions/Eslava_paper_2.1.pdf[]
  23. ↑ http://www.uh.edu/~adkugler/research.htm Adriana Kugler, University of Houston, Research Section
  24. ↑ http://www.uh.edu/~adkugler/AKugler_CV.pdf Adriana Kugler, University of Houston, Curriculum Vitae
  25. ↑ http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/ak659/?action=viewpublications&PageTemplateID=364 Adriana Kugler, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
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