Teresa Lynch

Biography: Teresa Lynch Senior Vice President, Director of Research ICIC Boston, MA Teresa M. Lynch is a social scientist with over twenty years of experience in urban and regional economic analysis. She is currently Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) in Boston. She is responsible for designing and managing a research agenda to promote inner-city investment, including a project with Brookings Institution to develop federal policy for inner city business development; projects with national retailers to assess demand and profitability in inner city neighborhoods; and consulting work with U.S. cities to design development strategies for economically distressed urban neighborhoods. Before joining ICIC, Teresa was a graduate student and research assistant at MIT's Industrial Performance Center, where she worked on the globalization of American and European manufacturing industries study and the International Motor Vehicle Program, where she studied on globalization and jobs in the automotive industry. She was a visiting scholar at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), one of the largest social science research institutions in Europe. She has published on globalization and corporate strategy, foreign direct investment in the automotive industry, infrastructure investment and economic development, and the use of economic models and methods in policy making. She holds undergraduate degrees in Economics and Public Policy from UNC-Chapel Hill and a master's degree in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania. (June 09)