Marguerite Roza

Dr. Marguerite Roza is a Research Professor at Georgetown University and Director of the Edunomics Lab, a research center exploring and modeling complex education finance decisions to inform policy and practice. She leads the McCourt School of Public Policy's Certificate in Education Finance, which equips participants with practical skills in strategic fiscal management, policy analysis, and leadership.

Dr. Roza’s research traces the effects of fiscal policies at the federal, state, and district levels for their implications on resources at the school and classroom levels. Her calculations of dollar implications and cost-equivalent tradeoffs have prompted changes in finance policy at all levels of the education system.

Dr. Roza was a Senior Economic Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and served as a Lieutenant in the US Navy teaching thermodynamics at the Naval Nuclear Power School. She earned a PhD in Education from the University of Washington and a BS from Duke University, and studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Amsterdam. She is author of the highly regarded education finance book, Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go?