Gail Greenfield

Gail is a Senior Principal in Mercer’s Workforce Strategy & Analytics practice in Washington, DC, specializing in diversity and inclusion analytics. Gail has more than 15 years of experience helping organizations identify interventions that will enable them to drive performance through improvements in the management of their talent and create diverse and inclusive workforces. Her insights on pay equity have been featured by leading publications and organizations such as the Washington Post and WorldatWork.

Gail has extensive experience conducting diversity-focused internal labor market analyses and pay equity analyses for organizations in a variety of industries, including financial services, IT, education, insurance, wholesale, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and hospitality. Gail also directs the diversity survey of the US cable and communications industry that Mercer conducts on behalf of The National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) and Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT).

Prior to joining Mercer in 2000, Gail was an assistant professor of economics at The College of Wooster. More recently, Gail worked as a senior program officer for the National Research Council.

Gail received her PhD in economics from Claremont Graduate University and her bachelor’s degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.