Anne Osborn Krueger (2004)

Born February 12, 1934

Endicott, New York, USA

Nationality United States

Institution Johns Hopkins University

Stanford University

Duke University

Field International economics

Alma mater University of Wisconsin–Madison

Oberlin College

Anne Osborn Krueger

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Anne Osborn Krueger (born February 12, 1934 in Endicott,New York) is an American economist. She was the WorldBank Chief Economist from 1982 to 1986, and the firstdeputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund(IMF) from 2001 to 2006. She is currently professor ofinternational economics at the Johns Hopkins School ofAdvanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.

1 Early life

2 Professional career

3 Editorship

4 References

5 External Links and Sources

Krueger was born on February 12, 1934. Her father was aphysician. Her uncles include the Australian politician SirReginald Wright and physiologist Sir Roy Wright. Shereceived her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College andher Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

As an economist, Krueger is known in macroeconomics and trade, famously coining the term rent-seeking in a

1974 article.[1][2] Furthermore, she has frequently criticised the U.S. sugar subsidies.[3] She has publishedextensively on policy reform in developing countries, the role of multilateral institutions in the internationaleconomy, and the political economy of trade policy. In her 1996 Presidential address to the American EconomicAssociation, she explored the lack of congruence between successful trade and development policies enactedworldwide and prevailing academic views.

She taught at the University of Minnesota from 1959 to 1982 before serving as World Bank Chief Economistfrom 1982 to 1986.

After leaving the Bank, she taught at Duke University from 1987–1993, when she joined the faculty of StanfordUniversity as Herald L. and Caroline L. Ritch Professor in Humanities and Sciences in the Department of

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Economics. She was also the founding Director of Stanford's Center for Research on Economic Developmentand Policy Reform; and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution.

She served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from September 1,2001 to August 31, 2006, serving as Acting Managing Director of the Fund on a temporary basis betweenMarch 4, 2004 (resignation of Horst Köhler), and June 7, 2004 (starting date for Rodrigo de Rato's mandate).Until the appointment of Christine Lagarde in 2011, she was the only female to fill the role of IMF ManagingDirector.

In 2005, she was awarded the prestigious title of Honorary Patron of the University Philosophical Society,Trinity College Dublin. Beginning in the spring of 2007, she assumed the position of professor of internationaleconomics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.

She is a Distinguished Fellow and past President of the American Economic Association, a member of theNational Academy of Sciences, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She isthe recipient of a number of economic prizes and awards.

Reforming India's Economic, Financial and Fiscal Policies (2003, with Sajjid Z. Chinoy);

Latin American Macroeconomic Reform: The Second Stage (2003, with Jose Antonio Gonzales, Vittorio

Corbo, and Aaron Tornell);

Economic Policy Reform and the Indian Economy (2003);

A new approach to sovereign debt restructuring (2002);

Economic Policy Reform: The Second Stage (2000); and

The WTO as an International Organization (2000).

Krueger, Anne O (2012). Struggling with Success: Challenges Facing the International Economy

(http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/8307.html). Hackensack, New Jersey: World Scientific.

p. 400. ISBN 978-981-4374-32-3.

^ "The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society," American Economic Review 64.3 (1974): 291 Walter E.

Williams 303

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^ Eamonn Butler, Public Choice: A Primer, London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2012, p. 752.

^ "The Political Economy of Controls: American Sugar," NBER Working Paper 2504 (1988)3.

Johns Hopkins University SAIS Faculty Website (http://www.sais-jhu.edu/faculty/krueger)

Anne O. Krueger, Biographical Information, copyrighted by the International Monetary Fund [1]

(http://www.imf.org/external/np/omd/bios/ak.htm) A, used under fair use; see [2] (http://www.imf.org

/external/pubs/rights.htm)

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Anne O. Krueger Trade Policy and Economic Development: How We Learn The American Economic

Review, Vol. 87, No. 1 (Mar., 1997), pp. 1–22 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2950851)

Business positions

Preceded byHollis B. Chenery

World Bank Chief Economist1982–1986

Succeeded byStanley Fischer

Preceded byStanley Fischer

First Deputy Managing Director of theIMF

2001–2006

Succeeded byJohn Lipsky

Preceded byHorst Köhler

Managing Director of the IMF (interim)March 2004–June 2004

Succeeded byRodrigo de Rato

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Categories: 1934 births Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences

Managing directors of the International Monetary Fund Fellows of the Econometric Society

Duke University faculty Living people Oberlin College alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni

Johns Hopkins University faculty Hoover Institution people

Stanford University Department of Economics faculty World Bank Chief Economists

American people of Australian descent

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