Barbara Petrongolo is a Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. She is the Director of the CEPR Labour Economics Programme and a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics. She previously held positions at the Queen Mary University of London, the London School of Economics, the Paris School of Economics and the University of Carlos III (Madrid). She is currently managing and co-editor of the Economic Journal. Her primary research interests are in labour economics.