Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski is Director of Macroeconomics, Finance and Governance at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Her research interests are labor economics, public finance and development economics. She has published in journals such as Development Policy Review, Economics Letters, Economic Modelling, Emerging Markets Review, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Review of Development Economics, Small Business Economics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, and World Development. She holds Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2011.