The University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, through its Department of Economics and in collaboration with the Women in Economics Club, will host the 2025 Hutchinson Lecture on Thursday, April 17, at 7 p.m. in 120 Smith Hall.

This year’s lecture will feature Natasha Sarin, professor of law at Yale Law School with a secondary appointment at the Yale School of Management. Sarin earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in ethics, politics and economics from Yale University.

Sarin previously served as deputy assistant secretary for economic policy and as a counselor to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Her work focused on closing the “tax gap” between taxes owed and collected. Her research covers public finance and financial regulation, including tax policy, household finance, insurance and macroprudential risk management. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, Financial Times and other outlets. She is also a contributing columnist for The Washington Post.

Established in 1990, the Hutchinson Lecture in Macroeconomics honors the late Harry D. Hutchinson, a UD economics professor from 1959–89. Each year, the lecture invites a prominent economist or policymaker to engage the UD community.