Ginger Zhe Jin is currently the Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor at Boston University, Questrom School of Business. Before joining Boston University in 2026, she taught Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park for more than 25 years. She has held senior positions across academia, government, and industry, including Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics (2016–2017), Amazon Scholar and Senior Principal Economist at Amazon (2019–2020), and currently Senior Consultant at Compass Lexecon.

Her work focuses on how information gaps shape market outcomes and how better data, disclosure, and policy design can improve competition, consumer protection, and innovation. Her research offers practical insights for regulators, businesses, and policymakers and has been published in leading economics, management, and marketing journals with support from the National Science Foundation, the Net Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. 

Professor Jin is Managing Editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, an advisory council member of the Journal of Industrial Economics, and a board member of the Industrial Organization Society. She has been a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2012 and co-founded Hazel Analytics in 2014 to promote the use of open government data. She has also provided paid consulting services to various firms in and out of US. 

She received her PhD in Economics from UCLA in 2000.