Dr. Susan Helper

Susan Helper is Senior Economist, White House Council of Economic Advisers.  She is on leave from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, where she is a professor of economics. She was previously the Chief Economist of the Department of Commerce, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford, the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, and MIT. Her research focuses on supply chain globalization, technology implementation that enhances job quality, and creation of supply chains for a low-carbon economy (with particular focus on the automotive industry).