Marianne Wanamaker
Professor of Economics and Dean of the Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs
Location Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs , United States
Department:
Economics
Biography
Marianne Wanamaker is the dean of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, as well as a professor of public policy. She also serves as a professor of economics with UT’s Haslam College of Business.
Wanamaker specializes in labor economics, education and workforce development. Her work has been widely referenced in the popular press, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, and supported by multiple federal agencies. She is a native of Martin, Tennessee, and she has been at UT since 2009. From 2017 to 2018, she took a leave of absence from the university to serve as the senior labor economist and chief domestic economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisors.
Wanamaker serves on the boards of Zoo Knoxville, Three Roots Capital, Dallas TX labor market startup ThinkWhy and Truist Bank’s local advisory board.