Galina Hale is a Professor of Economics at UC Santa Cruz. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), International Finance and Macroeconomics Program director at Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA), Co-director at Center for Analytical Finance (CAFIN) at UCSC, Co-founder at Food System Innovations, and a trustee of the Food System Research Fund (FSRF).
Additionally, she is Editor-in-Chief of Review of World Economies, Associate Editor of the Journal of International Economics, on the Editorial Board of the IMF Economic Review and the Pacific Economic Review , an officer of CREDO, an Animal Charity Evaluator board member, and a Project Advisor at MATS.
She was an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for 15 years, and has taught at the HAAS Business School at UC Berkeley, and Yale University.
She is an avid long-distance athlete, having completed multiple marathons and triathlons, including the prestigious Ironman triathlon.