Commission and sat on the Panel of Economic Advisers for the Congressional Budget Office, the Academic Advisory Board for the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and the Center for Global Development. She also became more involved in poverty reduction, and helped start DeWorm the World, along with Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, and Rachel Glennerster, a non-profit organization which is now part of EvidenceAction and has supported programs deworming over 300 million children in Africa and Asia. In May 2014, she was appointed to the United Kingdom's Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, as an "external member", replacing Ben Broadbent. She delivered a number of influential speeches reflecting her "deep dives" on economic challenges facing the United Kingdom. She dissented on March 16, 2017, preferring to raise rates, arguing inflation could overshoot the 2% target. She is finished her term in June 2017, and returned to MIT's Sloan School of Management. She has won many teaching awards and her classes are among the most popular at Sloan. Forbes is currently a research associate at the NBER and research fellow at the CEPR. She replaced Barry Eichengreen as the Convener of the Bellagio Group in 2010 and is a member of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group and Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a member of the Economic Advisory Panel for the New York Federal Reserve Bank and Scientific Committee for the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies. Personal life Forbes is married and has three children. She ran the Boston Marathon in 2014, for Boston Children's Hospital and earned qualifying time. She ran the London Marathon in 2016. Honors Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 2019 Bicentennial Medal from Williams College to members of the community "for outstanding achievement in any field of endeavor", 2015. References External links MIT web site Article on Forbes in Finance & Development Article on Forbes on Bloomberg Article on Forbes in TheEditorial 1970 births Living people People from Concord, New Hampshire Williams College alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni American women economists Morgan Stanley employees World Bank people United States Council of Economic Advisers MIT Sloan School of Management faculty Group of Thirty Economists from New Hampshire 21st-century American economists Honorary Commanders of the Order of the British Empire