Susan Helper

Susan Helper is a senior economist who serves on the Council of Economic Advisors at the White House. She is the former Chief Economist for the U.S. Commerce Department. Her research focuses on the globalization of supply chains, and on how U.S. manufacturing might be revitalized.

Dr. Helper is the the Carlton Professor of Economics at Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. She was formerly the chair of the Economics Department, and has been a visiting scholar at University of Oxford, the University of California (Berkeley), Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has also been a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and the International Motor Vehicle Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Her work has been published in a variety of places, including the Washington Post and the American Economic Review. Dr. Helper received her PhD in Economics from Harvard and her B.A. from Oberlin College in Economics, Government and Spanish.