Ilyana Kuziemko
Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Co-Director of the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Princeton University
Co-Director of the Princeton Program in Public Finance, Princeton University
Ilyana Kuziemko is the Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics, co-director of the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, and co-director of the Princeton Program in Public Finance at Princeton University. Kuziemko re-joined the Princeton faculty in 2014, after teaching at Columbia Business School from 2012-14, where she was the David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business.
From 2009-2010, Kuziemko served as assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she worked primarily on the development and early implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Her research interests are in the areas of public finance, political economy and labor economics, with focuses on U.S. economic inequality and in particular its interaction with political and labor-market institutions. She also is a fellow of the Econometric Society and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Kuziemko received her A.B. in economics from Harvard University, a second B.A. in mathematics from Oxford University (where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar), and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. She lives in Princeton with her husband and two children.