Wendy Joan Carlin, CBE FBA (born 1957) is a professor of economics at University College London, expert advisor to the Office for Budget Responsibility, and research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.
[5][6] 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.
CORE is a new introductory course in economics provided free to students and teachers,[13][14] hoping to "reform the undergraduate economics curriculum",[15] in which economists "will learn to use evidence from history, experiments and other data sources to test competing explanations and policies"[16] CORE is funded by grants from various organisations, including Open Society Foundations, Friends Provident Foundation and Nuffield Foundation[17] and is based in the Economics Department at University College London.
[26] Carlin was married to University of Oxford economics lecturer Andrew Glyn, with whom she had two children.