Mary Elizabeth Lovely (born 1956) is a professor emeritus of economics at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University.
[2] She worked at the Metropolitan Studies Program (now the Center for Policy Research) at Syracuse University during her PhD years.
In 1989, She joined the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University as an associate professor.
Lovely has served as a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 2017.
In January 2022, Lovely began serving as LoC Chair in U.S.-China Relations with the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.[5] Lovely has authored over 200 articles, papers, and reports and has written or edited multiple books.