DrSusan Schroeder

BS (Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science) State University of New York, Purchase; MA & PhD (Economics) New School for Social Research, New York

Susan's current areas of research are international financial crises, business cycles, and financial fragility and how these areas are linked to the country and sovereign risk assessments and policy design. Recent policy innovations include a wealth tax design to promote sovereign debt sustainability and fund green initiatives, as well as progressive use of CBDCs for community development. Her institutional and policy designs include public credit rating (national) and multilateral credit rating agencies (both include rating schemes). The MCRA material, comprised of two reports, was commissioned by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN/CEPAL).

Susan teaches Economic Policy and the State, Economic Cycles and Instability and Country Risk Analysis. The units integrate current events, heterodox/political economic theories, history of thought, method and data analysis.

Susan has been visiting scholar to the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, the Mises Institute at Auburn University (Alabama), the JFK Institute (Berlin), and Wolfson College, Cambridge University, where she is a lifetime member.

In 2021 Susan became a consultant for the United Nations, supporting ECLAC, CEPAL (Santiago, Chile), UNCTAD (Geneva, Switzerland) and DESA (New York).

She has taught at the Graduate Faculty of the New School, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science of Art in New York, the University of Applied Science in Bremen, Germany, and Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.

Prior to entering academia, Susan worked in the Wall Street area as the supervisor of special projects for the market research firm Information Resources, Inc.