Linda A. Bell

Linda A. Bell is provost and dean of the faculty at Barnard College, where she is also the Claire Tow Professor of Economics. Prior to joining Barnard, Professor Bell was the Provost and John B. Hurford Professor of Economics at Haverford College. Provost Bell is also a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, and a senior consultant for the labor practice group of the National Economic Research Associates. Previously, Provost Bell was a senior economist in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and project faculty on a Danish Research Council funded initiative at the Aarhus Business School in Denmark. She has served as a board member on the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economic Association and has held visiting faculty appointments at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and at Stanford University. Provost Bell received her Ph.D. from Harvard and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a University Scholar. In her varied professional and scholarly capacities, Provost Bell has served as a consultant to the World Bank and the U.S. Department of Labor. In addition to her academic work and teaching, she has been active in the American Association of University Professors, first in the capacity as Chair of the Committee on Faculty Compensation, where she authored the Association’s Annual Faculty Compensation Report from 1997 to 2001, and as a National Council Representative from 2003 to 2006.