Maya Eden joined the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich as Professor of Economics in July 2024. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011. Following her doctoral studies, she spent six years as an economist in the Macroeconomics and Growth Team of the Development Economics Research Group at the World Bank. In 2017, she transitioned to academia as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Brandeis University, where she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. Prof. Eden is affiliated with the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She co-organizes the Virtual Seminar Series on Normative Economics and Economic Policy, serves as an Associate Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics and a Co-Editor at Economics and Philosophy.