Paula E. Stephan

Paula Stephan is Professor of Economics, Georgia State University, a Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Stephan currently serves on the National Research Council Board on Higher Education and Workforce. She has served on the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council, National Institutes of Health, and on the Advisory Committee of SBE, National Science Foundation. She was a member of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group that authored the report "Frontier Research: The European Challenge." Stephan graduated from Grinnell College (Phi Beta Kappa) with a B.A. in Economics and earned both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan. She has been a visiting scholar at Katholeike Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, a Wertheim Fellow, Harvard University, and an ICER fellow, Turin, Italy. Stephan has published numerous articles in journals such as The American Economic Review, Science, The Journal of Economic Literature,and Management Science. She co-authored,with Sharon Levin, Striking the Mother Lode in Science.