Catherine L. Mann

Catherine L. Mann
In an online discussion in 2021
Education	Harvard University MIT
Occupation	Economist

Catherine L. Mann is an American economist and a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. Before her appointment, she was the global chief economist at Citi from 2018 until 2021. She was also the chief economist at the OECD.

Education

Mann has a BA in economics, magna cum laude , from Harvard University in 1977. ^[1] She then proceeded to MIT where she received a Ph.D. in international economics in 1984. ^[1]

Career

Mann has worked as an economist in the Bush administration's Council of Economic Advisers where she advised on the European Monetary Union, Latin American economies and the transition economies of the former USSR.

She worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve, mainly in the bank's International Finance division.

Starting in 2006, Mann was a lecturer at Brandeis University and, in 2010, she was appointed Barbara '54 and Richard M. Rosenberg Professor of International Economics and Finance there. ^[1] She left for the OECD in 2014 where she served as the Chief Economist and G20 Finance deputy until November 2017. ^{[2] [3]}

In February 2018, she became the Global Chief Economist at Citibank and served until May 2021. Mann was appointed to the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on September 1, 2021, and was subsequently reappointed to serve a second three-year term in 2024. ^[3]

She was made a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society in May 2025. ^[4]

Academic contribution

Mann's work has concentrated on U.S. trade deficit and exchange rate fluctuation of the U.S. dollar. ^[5]

Publications

Books

• Catherine L. Mann (1999). Is the U.S. Trade Deficit Sustainable? . Columbia University Press. pp.  224. ISBN   9780881322644.
• Catherine L. Mann (2006). Accelerating the Globalization of America: The Role for Information Technology. Columbia University Press. p. 256. ISBN   9780881323900.

Journal articles

• Catherine L. Mann (1986). "Prices, profit margins, and exchange rates". Federal Reserve Bulletin . 72 (6): 366–379.
• Catherine L. Mann; John S. Wilson; Tsunehiro Otsuki (2005). "Assessing the Benefits of Trade Facilitation: A Global Perspective". World Economy. 28 (6): 841–871. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9701.2005.00709.x. S2CID   56386069.

References

1. "CV Catherine L. Mann". Archived from the original on January 25, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2017– via Google Docs.
2. "OECD appoints Catherine L. Mann as new Chief Economist" (Press release). OECD. Archived from the original on January 17, 2018. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
3. "Dr. Catherine L Mann reappointed to the Monetary Policy Committee". GOV.UK. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
4. Sinur, Cesilia (May 1, 2025). "The Royal Economic Society announces Founding Fellows". Royal Economic Society. Retrieved September 12, 2025.
5. "Catherine Mann". Peterson Institute for International Economics. March 3, 2016. Archived from the original on January 17, 2018. Retrieved January 15, 2018.

External links

• Personal website at the Wayback Machine (archived October 16, 2020)
• Catherine L. Mann on Twitter
• Catherine on IDEAS/RePEc
• Appearances on C-SPAN