Edith Joachimpillai is a researcher, writer, and mentor whose professional background spans economics, law, finance, business structure, and strategy.

Edith worked for the Brookings Institution under the direction of Kemal Dervis. She researched the eurozone crisis, scaling up a United Nations funded girls education program in Uttar Pradesh, India, the Paris Agreement, “Technology, Productivity, and the Future of Growth” and more. Her work is included in many publications and she has presented to the Board of Trustees and executive-level individuals both within and outside of the institution.

Since her time at Brookings, she founded Copper and Cobalt, a global consulting firm in the Boston area. Edith has consulted to small, medium, and large enterprises on go-to-market strategy, management, branding, and other internal and external business processes. She also has served in volunteer capacities including as Vice Chair and Trustee of Westford’s Affordable Housing Trust, co-creating Black at Bentley, and serving on the board of Sustainable Westford.

In both her professional and voluntary positions she served as a trusted advisor to local stakeholders, convened meetings to outline possible solutions to the issues at hand, and published reports, books and other materials to disseminate best policy practices rooted in quantitative and qualitative interdisciplinary research.

Edith currently works at Boston University under the direction of Keith Hylton on antitrust, labor law, intellectual property, and empirical legal and economic research and analysis. She also serves in a teaching assistance capacity to Bruce Watson for Introduction to Macroeconomics at the undergraduate level.

Edith has a Master of Arts in Economics from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science in Economics-Finance with Minors in Mathematics and Mandarin from Bentley University.