Marisa DiNatale is a senior director and head of global forecasting at Moody’s Analytics. Marisa oversees all macroeconomic forecasting and publication operations in the Economics group. Her areas of specialization and research are U.S. labor markets, household balance sheets and credit, and international economics. She is also a co-host of the weekly Inside Economics podcast. She regularly gives presentations to clients and business groups, and has been interviewed on Bloomberg Television, Fox Business News, and National Public Radio. Marisa started her career as a labor economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington DC. During her tenure at the Labor Department, she won the Lawrence R. Klein Award for her research on the labor force experience of Generation X women and was a finalist for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. Marisa holds a master’s degree in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Boston University.