Susanna Loeb

Susanna Loeb
Nationality	American

Institution	Stanford University
Field	Educational economics
Alma mater	Stanford University University of Michigan
Doctoral advisor	Paul Courant
Contributions	Educational policy Policy analysis
Awards	Distinguished Research in Teacher Education Award from the Association of Teacher Educators(2007)

Susanna Loeb is an American education economist and the Barnett Family Professor of Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where she also served as founding director of the Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA). Moreover, she directs Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE). Her research interests include the economics of education and the relationship between schools and educational policies, in particular school finance and teacher labor markets.

Susanna Loeb earned a B.S. in civil engineering and a B.A. in political science from Stanford University in 1988, followed by an M.P.P. in public policy and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan in 1994 and 1998. Since, 2005, Loeb has been the director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), a non-partisan research center dedicated to research on California's education system. From 2006 to 2009, Loeb directed the Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice (IREPP), which subsequently became the Center for Education Policy Analysis and as director of which she also served until 2015. Moreover, since 2009, she has been a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Additionally, Loeb maintains affiliations with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the National Board for Education Sciences. Finally, she currently performs editorial duties for the Economics of Education Review, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Education Finance and Policy. On July 1, 2018, she will become the director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University.