Jennifer Hunt is a professor of economics at Rutgers University. From 2013 to 2015, she was first chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor, then deputy assistant secretary for microeconomic analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Hunt is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and is on the Scientific Advisory Council of the Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung in Nuremburg. Her current research focuses on immigration and wage inequality, while past research has also encompassed unemployment, the science and engineering workforce, the transition from communism, crime and corruption.