Marianne Wanamaker is the dean of the University of Tennessee’s (UT) Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs and a professor of economics and public policy. Wanamaker’s expertise is in labor economics, education, and workforce development. Her work has been widely referenced in the popular press, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post and supported by multiple federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. She holds an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and her master’s degree and doctorate from Northwestern University. She is a native of Martin, Tennessee, and she has been at UT since 2009, first at the Haslam College of Business and then at the Baker School starting in 2021. From 2017 to 2018, she took a leave of absence from UT to serve as the senior labor economist and chief domestic economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers.