Dr. Nicole Smith

Chief Economist, Georgetown University Center on Education & the Workforce (CEW)

Dr. Smith is a research professor and chief economist at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW), where she leads CEW’s econometric and methodological work. She has developed a framework for restructuring long-term occupational and educational projections, which forms the underlying methodology for CEW’s reports projecting education demand for occupations in the U.S. economy. Prior to joining CEW, Smith was a faculty member in economics at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania and at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. She taught classical and modern econometrics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, statistics, mathematics for economists, and Latin American economic development. Smith graduated with honors in economics and mathematics from the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine campus, where she received the Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Prize for outstanding research at the master’s level at UWI and was co-recipient of the 2007 Arrow Prize for Junior Economists for educational mobility research. She received her Ph.D. in economics from American University in Washington, D.C.