Carol Newman is a Professor in Economics at the Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin.
She is an applied microeconomist whose research examines household and enterprise behaviour with a particular focus on developing countries.
She is a co-founder of the Trinity Impact Evaluation (TIME) Research Centre and is engaged in research projects across Africa and South-East Asia. She completed a B.A. (Mod) at Trinity in 1998 and PhD in 2001 and joined the staff of the Department of Economics in 2002.
She was a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago in 2007, at the University of Copenhagen in 2006 and for the 2013-2014 academic year, and at the University of Bologna in 2018.
She is also a non-resident Senior Research Fellow of United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), a research associate of the Development Economics Research Group at the University of Copenhagen and a consultant to the World Bank.
She is currently Chair of the Board of Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), a Southern-led global organization dedicated to supporting development in the Global South.