About
Almudena Sevilla is Professor of Economic and Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her contributions to economics and her work advancing women in the profession.
She is President of the Society of Economics of the Household, Founding Chair and now Ambassador of the Royal Economic Society’s UK Women in Economics Network, and Director of the LSE Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub. She is also a Research Fellow at IZA and a Research Associate at LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (CEP).
Professor Sevilla is an applied microeconomist whose research focuses on the economics of the family, gender, human capital, and artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on how technological change, social norms, institutions, and public policies shape inequalities within households and across the labour market. Her work combines large-scale observational data, experimental evidence, and innovative approaches to measuring time use and behaviour.
Before joining LSE, she held academic positions at University College London, Queen Mary University of London, the University of Oxford, and the University of Essex, and worked at the Congressional Budget Office in Washington, DC. She received her PhD in Economics from Brown University in 2004.
Alongside her research, Professor Sevilla has held leadership roles across the economics profession and regularly contributes to academic, policy, and public debates on gender inequality, labour markets, families, artificial intelligence, and the future of work.
Research
Almudena has a successful track-record in gender economics research. Early in her career, she received the prestigious Marie J. Langlois Prize for her doctoral research on gender economics and the status of women in the academic field. Her research is regularly published in top-tier international journals such as the American Economic Review, Demography, and the Journal of Labor Economics. She also serves on the editorial boards of leading journals including Feminist Economics and Review of the Economics of the Household. Her work has attracted substantial research funding, including the highly competitive European Research Council Consolidator Grant of over £2M.