Alice Rivlin

Alice Rivlin

Alice Mitchell Rivlin (born March 4, 1931 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † May 14, 2019 in Washington, DC ) was an American business manager who was also the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Life

Rivlin first studied economics at Bryn Mawr College and graduated in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Economics). A subsequent postgraduate study of economics at Radcliffe College she finished in 1955 with a Master of Arts (MA Economics). Finally, she earned a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D. Economics) from Radcliffe College in 1958 and then initially worked as an economist and political analyst at the Brookings Institution .

In 1966 she entered the service of the Johnson administration and was until 1968 Deputy Assistant to the health, education and welfare minister for Program Coordination ( Deputy Assistant US Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare ), then there until 1969 Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and a close associate of then Ministers John W. Gardner and Wilbur J. Cohen . She then returned to the Brookings Institution as a research scientist. In 1973 she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 1975 their call to the first director of the newly created budget offices ( Congressional Budget Office ) of the Congress of the United States and held that post until 1983 from. In 1983 she was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship . In 1986 she became the first woman to preside over the American Economic Association (AEA) as elected president .

After a year working as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1993 to 1994, she was on 17 October 1994 by US President Bill Clinton , to replace Leon Panetta , the White House Chief of Staff had become the director of the Office of Management and Budget appointed. She was not only a member of the Clinton cabinet , but also the first and so far only female head of this executive office of the US President.

On September 13, 1996 she was succeeded by Franklin Raines as director of the OMB. She then became vice chairman of the Federal Reserve System and held this office until July 16, 1999. At the same time, she was temporarily from 1998 to 2001 chairman of the District of Columbia Financial Control Board .

In 1999 she first became a Senior Fellow in Economic Program Studies at the Brookings Institution, where she was Director of Research in Greater Washington, DC, since January 2001. In addition, Alice Rivlin was visiting professor for public political institutions at Georgetown University since September 2003 .

Most recently, she was also a board member of NYSE Euronext and was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform in early 2010 .

Web links

• Biography on the Brookings Institution website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Past and Present Officers. aeaweb.org ( American Economic Association ), accessed October 27, 2015 .