Fernando Lozano, Ph.D.

Fernando Lozano, Ph.D.

Faculty Research Fellow

Dr. Lozano s the Morris B. and Gladys S. Pendleton Professor of Economics at Pomona College. He is an applied economist focusing on the economics of inclusion and equity in labor markets. His research addresses questions related to differential labor market outcomes across race, ethnicity, religion, and gender. He is currently the editor of the Hispanic Economic Outlook, the publication of the American Society of Hispanic Economists. He serves as co-chair of Governor’s Newsom Council of Economic Advisors, he is an economist at the Inland Empire Economic Partnership, and he is a research fellow in the Institute for the Study of Labor IZA in Germany. Currently, he is the Chair of the economics department at Pomona College and the co-Chair of the American Economic Association Mentoring Program. He has served as associate dean at Pomona College from 2014-2017, as president of the American Society of Hispanic Economists from 2018-2019, and as a member of the Committee for the Status of Minority Groups of the American Economic Association from 2009-2015. In 2008 he won Pomona College’s Wig Award for Outstanding Teaching and, in 2018, the Claremont Colleges Diversity Award for Mentoring. During 2008 and 2009, he was the Ford Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Poverty Center at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of San Diego in 1998 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2005.