Deborah J. Lucas is an American economist who works in the MIT Sloan School of Management as Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance and director of the Golub Center for Finance and Policy;[1] she is also a research affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research.
[2] Her research interests include the evaluation of governmental financial activity;[1] she has also published work on portfolio optimization, asset pricing, and information privilege.
During this period she was also a visiting assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1990–1991, a senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in 1992–1993, and chief economist of the Congressional Budget Office in 2000–2001.
[2] In 2009 she moved to her present position at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she received the Sloan Distinguished Professorship of Finance in 2011 and became director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy in 2012.
[2] Lucas was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance in 2003, and elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration in 2018.