Marianne H. Wanamaker

Marianne Wanamaker is a professor of economics at the University of Tennessee and the executive director of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy. She serves as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and as a research fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, Germany and at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She is the former chief domestic economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Wanamaker’s expertise is in labor economics, education, and workforce development. She holds an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and her masters degree and PhD from Northwestern University.