Wendy Carlin

Carlin was born in 1957, her father Brian Frederick Carlin was an agricultural scientist.[3] Carlin completed her undergraduate education at Murdoch University, Australia in 1978.[4][5] She then went on to study for a master's degree and PhD at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, finishing in 1987. Her thesis was entitled The development of the factor distribution of income and profitability in West Germany, 1945-1973 and was supervised by Andrea Boltho.[6] In her early academic career, Carlin focused on contemporary economics and economic history, and in particular, West Germany.[7][8] The statistician John Carlin_(professor) is her brother.

During her PhD studies, Carlin was a lecturer in Economics at Christ Church, Oxford.[9] After her PhD she moved to the Department of Economics at UCL where she has remained since.[10] She was appointed professor at UCL in 2002.[10]

In 2000, Carlin became a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.[10] Since 2011, Carlin has been a member of the expert advisory board to the Office for Budget Responsibility.[10] Between 2000 and 2015 she was co-managing editor (with Philippe Aghion) of Economics of Transition.[11]

In 2013, Carlin was one of the founders of Curriculum Open-access Resources in Economics (CORE), for which she is now the director. CORE is a new introductory course in economics provided free to students and teachers,[12][13] in which economists "will learn to use evidence from history, experiments and other data sources to test competing explanations and policies"[14] CORE is funded by grants from various organisations, including Open Society Foundations, Friends Provident Foundation and Nuffield Foundation[15] and is based in the Economics Department at University College London.[16]

In 2015, she became a member of the council of the Royal Economic Society.[10]

Carlin has written three books, all coauthored with David Soskice:[17]

• Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain: A Modern Approach to Employment, Inflation and the Exchange Rate (1990)
• Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies (2006)
• Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability and the Financial System (2015)

In September 2014, Carlin was awarded an honorary degree in Economics from Murdoch University.[18]

In 2015, Carlin was awarded a CBE in the new year honours.[19]

Carlin was married to University of Oxford economics lecturer Andrew Glyn, with whom she had two children. Glyn died in December 2007 from brain cancer.[3]