Ingvild Almås

Ingvild Almås (born 1978[1]) is a professor of economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University.

[2] She is also an external member of the new committee on monetary policy and financial stability in Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway.

[3] Almås obtained her PhD from the Norwegian School of Economics in 2008 with a thesis on economic inequalities for which she received Norges Bank's award for best PhD thesis in macroeconomics.

[4] Almås' research is mainly focused on gaining a better understanding of economic inequalities and has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review[5] and the Journal of Political Economy.

[6] She was elected fellow of the European Economic Association in 2021.