Heidi Hartmann

Heidi I. Hartmann is an American feminist economist who is founder and president emerita of the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR), a research organization created to conduct women-centered, public policy research.

On August 14, 1945, Hartmann was born to Henry Hartmann and Hedwig (Bercher) Hartmann in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

She attended Swarthmore College, where she received a B.A. in economics with honors in 1967.

Hartmann then attended Yale University, where she received a M. Phil.

In 1967, she married Frank Blair Cochran, birthed Jessica Lee Cochran then divorced a year later.

in economics in 1972 and a PhD in the subject in 1974.

Hartmann has won various awards.

In 1979, she married John Varick Wells and had two daughters—Katherine Lina Hartman Wells and Laura Cameron Hartmann Wells.

In 1994, she won the MacArthur Fellowship Award—a five-year grant from the MacArthur Foundation given to individuals who show exceptional creativity for their research and the prospect for more in the future—for her work on women and economics.

She is also the recipient of two honorary degrees.

She retired from her position as President and CEO in 2019.

Hartmann is an expert on the intersection of women, economics and public policy.

Dr. Hartmann is also a Distinguished Economist in Residence at American University, a nonresident fellow at the Urban Institute, a research fellow at the Institute for Economic Equity at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and editor of the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy.