March 21, 2005
Renowned economist to discuss restoring ‘Fiscal Sanity’
Clark President's Lecture April 6 to feature Alice Rivlin, Brookings Senior Fellow
WORCESTER, MA--The Clark University President’s Lecture Series will present an evening with eminent economist Alice Rivlin, Ph.D., Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution. Her lecture, “Fiscal Sanity: Why it Matters and How to Restore It,” is free and open to the public. It will begin at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, in Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts, 92 Downing Street.
Rivlin is a visiting professor at the Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University and a senior fellow in the economic-studies program at the Brookings Institution. She is the director of the Greater Washington Research Program at Brookings. Previously, Rivlin served as vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board. She was director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and also deputy director. She also served as chair of the District of Columbia Financial Management Assistance Authority.
Rivlin has received a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, has taught at Harvard, George Mason, and New School universities, has served on the boards of directors of several corporations, and as president of the American Economic Association. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of BearingPoint and the Washington Post Company.
A frequent contributor to newspapers, television, and radio, Rivlin has written numerous books. These include “Systematic Thinking for Social Action,” “Reviving the American Dream,” and “Beyond the Dot.coms” (with Robert Litan). She is co-editor (with Isabel Sawhill) of “Restoring Fiscal Sanity: How to Balance the Budget” and (with Litan) “The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution.”
Rivlin received a B.A. in economics from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in economics from Radcliffe College (Harvard University).
This event is supported by Clark University President’s Office and Economics Department. For information, contact 508-793-7767.
A reception will follow this lecture, which is planned in honor of Clark Professor of economics Attiat F. Ott, who will conclude her Clark teaching career this spring. Professor Ott has a distinguished, 35-year career as a member of the Clark University faculty and as an influential economist.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United States, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition free for eligible students.
Jane Salerno
Assistant Director, Media Relations
Clark University
(508) 793-7554
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