Katherine Baicker, Ph.D.
Provost of the University of Chicago and Emmett Dedmon Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Katherine Baicker, Ph.D., is the Provost of the University of Chicago and Emmett Dedmon Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. Prior to being appointed Provost, she served as Dean of the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy for five years. She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She was elected to the Eli Lilly and Company board of directors in 2011.
Before serving at the University of Chicago, she was the C. Boyden Gray professor of health economics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she now holds an appointment as an adjunct professor. From 1998 to 2005, Baicker was assistant professor and associate professor of economics at Dartmouth College. From 2005 to 2007, she served as a Senate-confirmed member of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President, where she played a leading role in the development of health policy.
Baicker received a Bachelor of Arts in economics, magna cum laude, from Yale University in 1993, and a doctorate in economics from Harvard University in 1998.
Baicker serves on the Panel of Health Advisers to the Congressional Budget Office, the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, the editorial board of Health Affairs, and as a trustee of the Mayo Clinic and the National Opinion Research Center. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Social Insurance, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She previously served on the board of directors of HMS Holdings.
