Elissa Braunstein is Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs and Professor of Economics in the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Feminist Economics, and a former Senior Economist in the Division of Globalization and Development Strategies at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Her work focuses on the international and macroeconomic aspects of growth and development, emphasizing the interactions between macroeconomic policy and gender equality, as well as the consequences of incorporating care and social reproduction into macroeconomic models. She publishes widely in both academic and policy venues, and has done consulting work for a number of international development institutions, including UN Women, the International Labour Organization, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a Master’s of Pacific International Affairs from the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California San Diego.