Catherine L. Mann
Catherine L. Mann is an American economist and a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. Before her appointment, she was the global chief economist at Citi from 2018 until 2021. She was also the chief economist at the OECD.
Education
Mann has a BA in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1977. She then proceeded to MIT where she received a Ph.D. in international economics in 1984.Career
Mann has worked as an economist in the Bush administration's Council of Economic Advisers where she advised on the European Monetary Union, Latin American economies and the transition economies of the former USSR.She worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve, mainly in the bank's International Finance division.
Starting in 2006, Mann was a lecturer at Brandeis University and, in 2010, she was appointed Barbara '54 and Richard M. Rosenberg Professor of International Economics and Finance there. She left for the OECD in 2014 where she served as the Chief Economist and G20 Finance deputy until November 2017.
In February 2018, she became the Global Chief Economist at Citibank and served until May 2021. Mann was appointed to the Monetary Policy Committee on September 1, 2021, and was subsequently reappointed to serve a second three-year term in 2024.
She was made a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society in May 2025.