Ingvild Almås

Ingvild Almås (born 10 March, 1978^[1]) is a professor of economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University.^[2] She is also an external member of the new committee on monetary policy and financial stability in Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway.^[3]

Almås obtained her PhD from the Norwegian School of Economics in 2008 with a thesis on economic inequalities for which she received Norges Bank's award for best PhD thesis in macroeconomics.^[4]

Almås' research is mainly focused on gaining a better understanding of economic inequalities and has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review^[5] and the Journal of Political Economy.^[6] She was elected fellow of the European Economic Association in 2021.^[7]