Heidi Williams

Heidi Williams is a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. Her teaching and research focus on how society can best support science and innovation, and how we can best ensure that science and innovation generate broad benefits to society. She is the Director of Science Policy at the Institute for Progress, co-chair of J-PAL’s Science for Progress Initiative, and co-director of the Innovation Policy working group at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is also lead editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives and a visiting scholar at the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School.

Williams is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and the ASHEcon Medal. She received her MSc in development economics from Oxford University and her PhD in economics from Harvard.