Andrew Flowers is the Chief Economist at Appcast, the global leader in programmatic recruitment advertising technology and services. He is the director of research at Recruitonomics.com – a hub for data-driven research that aims to help business leaders navigate the recruitment challenges they face caused by broader economic forces. He also manages the Appcast Data & Insights team – a 16-person team of economists, data scientists, data engineers, and data visualization experts that serve Appcast clients’ data needs.
A recognized expert on economic policy and the U.S. labor market, he has over 15 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Appcast, Flowers was an economist at Indeed, on the Hiring Lab research team; and before that he was the quantitative editor at FiveThirtyEight, Nae Silver’s data-driven news website. He began his career as an economic research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago and an M.S. in Applied Economics from Boston College.
