Linda Babcock is the James M. Walton Professor of Economics at Heinz College and is the former Acting Dean at Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. She is the founder and faculty director of the Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society (PROGRESS). The mission of PROGRESS is to pursue gender equity and foster positive societal change for all women through education, partnerships, and research. Her program develops tools to teach women and girls how to harness the power of negotiation. Babcock is a member of the Russell Sage Foundation’s Behavioral Economics Roundtable and has served on the economics review panel for the National Science Foundation. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, the Harvard Business School, and the California Institute of Technology.
