Caroline Freund is Dean of the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. Prior to that she was Global Director of Trade, Investment and Competitiveness. Previously she was a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She has also worked as Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, after working for nearly a decade in the international trade unit of the research department. Freund began her career in the international finance division of the Federal Reserve Board and spent a year visiting the research department of the IMF. She has published extensively in academic journals and is the author of . She is a US national and received a PhD in economics from Columbia University.