Lindsey Macmillan

Lindsey Macmillan serves as Professor of Economics at University College London and Founding Director of the UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO), with additional appointments as Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and Visiting Professor at LSE's Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE).

Educational background:

• PhD in Economics, University of Bristol
• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School

Her research investigates education-driven social mobility through the lens of socioeconomic inequality, focusing on student-university matching mechanisms, pandemic disruptions to assessment systems, and intergenerational income transmission. Key findings demonstrate how disadvantaged students systematically undermatch to university courses relative to academic potential, perpetuating earnings gaps.

Scientific awards: No specific awards documented in source materials.

Professor Macmillan secures competitive research funding through IFS and UCL channels, currently leading projects on pandemic-era educational disruptions. She mentors emerging researchers through CEPEO's multidisciplinary framework and maintains active collaborations with LSE, Harvard, and European institutions like CESifo.

The CEPEO research center operates as a nexus for policy-oriented scholarship, integrating economic, psychological, and sociological perspectives to analyze inequality pathways from early childhood through labor market entry, with explicit focus on designing equitable educational interventions.