Barbara K. Fergus
Women in Leadership Lecture

Women’s issues are economic issues; economic issues are everyone’s issues

Please join Alice Rivlin, founding director of the Congressional Budget Office and past assistant chair of the Federal Reserve Board, as she addresses the current economic dialogue, partisanship and public policy.

Monday, September 10, 2012 at 4pm
Ohio Union Performance Hall
1739 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43210

Registration Required

To register for this event please click the RSVP button or call 614-688-3206, ext. 2 by Friday, September 7, 2012.

Registration is necessary for this free lecture. To reach our maximum audience, registrations are accepted beyond venue capacity. We encourage early arrival to assure best seating.



Alice Rivlin's keynote address to the 64th Annual Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado, April 2012.

 

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The Barbara K. Fergus Women in Leadership Lecture Series was established in 2005 and brings together women from all walks of life — corporate and political, non-profit and higher education — to The Ohio State University campus to educate and enlighten faculty, staff, students, and community members on leadership and the associated issues and opportunities that women face in today’s society.

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Alice Rivlin is an expert on fiscal and monetary policy. She has served as the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and the first director of the Congressional Budget Office. In 2010, Rivlin was appointed by President Barack Obama to his National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

She is a visiting professor at the Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University and a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. She is the co-director of the Greater Washington Research Program at Brookings.

Rivlin received a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, 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 a frequent contributor to newspapers, television, and radio, and has written numerous books. Her books include “Systematic Thinking for Social Action”, “Reviving the American Dream”, and “Beyond the Dot.coms” (with Robert Litan) and she is co-editor (with Litan) of “The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution”.

Rivlin was born in Philadelphia, Penn. she and her family soon moved to Bloomington, Ind., where her father held a professorship in nuclear physics at the University of Indiana. She graduated magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1952, went on to obtain an M.A. in 1955 and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University's Radcliffe College in 1958.

She is married to economist Sidney G. Winter, who is professor emeritus of management and technological change at University of Pennsylvania.

 

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