Barbara M. Fraumeni

Barbara M. Fraumeni recently joined the Muskie School of Public Service of the University of Southern Maine as Professor of Public Policy and Chair of the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy. She previously served as Chief Economist of the Bureau of Economic Analysis from January of 1999 until July of 2005. She has a 1972 B.A. from Wellesley College and a 1980 Ph.D. from Boston College, both in economics. After graduation from Wellesley, she became a Research Assistant for Dale W. Jorgenson of the Department of Economics and the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, beginning a research collaboration that continues to the present. From 1982 through 1998, Dr. Fraumeni was a Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. From 1988 through 1998, she was also a Research Fellow of the Program on Technology and Economic Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Her areas of expertise include measurement issues and national income accounting; her research interests include human and non-human capital, productivity, economic growth, market and non-market accounts, investment in education, R&D, and measurement of highway capital stock and the output of government. Her most recent book publication comes from her membership on the National Research Council (National Academy of Sciences) Panel to Study the Design of Nonmarket Accounts. The panel book edited by Katharine Abraham and Christopher Mackie, Beyond the Market: Designing Nonmarket Accounts for the United States, was published in 2005. Her most recent book chapter publication (with Michael Harper, Susan Powers, and Robert Yuskavage): “An Integrated BEA/BLS Production Account: A First Step and Theoretical Considerations,” in Jorgenson, Landefeld, and Nordhaus (eds.), A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts, was published in 2006.

She has been an active member of IARIW, the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (CRIW), and the Canberra II Group on Measurement of Non-financial Assets considering revisions to the SNA.

Nomination supported by

• Lidia Bratanova (Economic Commission for Europe)
• Carol Carson (International Monetary Fund)
• Anne Harrison (OECD)
• Liv Hobbelstad Simpson (Statistics Norway)
• Bill Keating (Irish Central Statistical Office)
• Steve Landefeld (Bureau of Economic Analysis, USA)
• Ruth Meier (Federal Statistical Office, Switzerland)
• Bent Thage (Statistics Denmark)
• Peter van de Ven (Statistics Netherland)
• Karen Wilson (Statistics Canada)