Lynn Riggs is a Research Fellow at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research. Prior to taking on this role in July 2018, Lynn had worked for the US government for 20 years. She most recently worked for the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the primary regulator of swaps and futures markets. Prior to that, she worked at the US Bureau of the Census and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lynn also taught health economics and microeconomics as an adjunct professor at DePaul University in Chicago. She has worked extensively with large, confidential data sets in the US, including the US Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and other firm-level data. Lynn’s research interests are in labour, health, education, and financial economics. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. More about Lynn.