Ingrid Woolard is a Professor of Economics and Executive Dean of the University of Sussex Business School. She is also Honorary Professor of Economics at Groningen University and the University of Cape Town; a Research Fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, a non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki and a Research Associate of the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University.