Lesley Turner
Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Lesley J. Turner is an economist by training and Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, IZA research fellow, and CESifo research affiliate. Her research broadly considers the roles that government should play in providing, financing, and regulating education. She served as Senior Advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary and Office of the Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Education in 2022 and as an education fellow in the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in 2018-19. Prior to joining the University of Chicago, Turner was an Associate Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University and Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. She holds a joint B.A./M.P.P. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.