Professor Dina Pomeranz named among the ten most influential Swiss economists and elected to the Council of the European Economic Association.

Dina Pomeranz's research focuses on public policies in developing countries, in particular the areas of taxation and public procurement. She contributes to the move towards more evidence-based policy making, both in developing and more economically developed countries. Prior to joining the University of Zurich, she was an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, where she taught entrepreneurship for MBA students. She was also a post-doctoral fellow at MIT's Poverty Action Lab.

Ms Pomeranz is an affiliate professor at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), as well as a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD) and a member of the International Growth Centre (IGC). In 2018, she was elected to the Council of the European Economic Association for a five-year term. 

Her work has been published in academic journals, including the American Economic Review and the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and the Journal of Economic Development. In 2017, she was awarded a prestigious grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her research on tax evasion and the role of firm networks. She shares her work and thoughts on Twitter (@dinapomeranz) with more than 41'000 followers.  

Besides her academic interests, Professor Pomeranz serves on the board or advisory board of a number of social enterprise ventures committed to translating research into practice, including Evidence Action, TamTam-Together Against Malaria and IDinsight. In 2019, she was named one of the ten most influential economists in Switzerland by the Tages-Anzeiger. 

Dina earned a Master in International Relations (2001) and a Master in International Economics (2003) from the Graduate Institute and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.