Almudena Sevilla

Maria Almudena Sevilla Sanz is a Spanish born academic who is professor of Economic and Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics, the Founding Chair of the Royal Economic Society Women in Economics Network and the LSE Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub.

Early life and education Sevilla studied business management and economics at the University of Valladolid. She moved to the Pompeu Fabra University for her graduate studies, where she earned an MSc in 1999. Sevilla was a doctoral researcher at Brown University, where she worked in population economics. Her doctorate explored the role of gender-based social attitudes in demographic outcomes. She was awarded the Marie J. Langlois Prize After earning her doctorate she joined the Congressional Budget Office as a Research Officer.

Research and career Sevilla moved to the United Kingdom in 2005, where she worked at University College London, the University of Essex and Queen Mary University of London. In 2022, she was made a professor of Economics and Public Policy at the London School of Economics. Sevilla works in gender economics. She serves as President of the Society of the Economics of the Household. Sevilla led PARENTIME, a European Research Council project to understand intergenerational transmission of inequality. Before Sevilla's studies, literature had not properly evaluated parent time or child outcomes.

Sevilla was made Chair of the Royal Economic Society Women in Economics Network

Selected publications