Education
Merton College.
Merton College.
She teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. An expert on the economics of digitization, her research examines the effect of privacy regulations on the spread of new technologies and the viability of the advertising-supported internet. She has given talks to the European Union Future of Privacy Forum Roundtable and the Organization of European Cooperation and Development Roundtable on Economics of Privacy, and has testified at the United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee on online privacy.
In 2012, she was admitted as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and became the first woman to be awarded tenure in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Marketing Department.
Catherine Tucker was born in Oxford, and attended Merton College at the University of Oxford, studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She emigrated to the United States in 1999.
