Anne Osborn Krueger (2004)

Born February 12, 1934

Endicott, New York, USA
Nationality United States
Institution J ohns Hopkins University
Stanford University
Duke University
Field International economics
Alma mater University of WisconsinMadison
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 World
Bank Chief Economist from 1982 to 1986, and the first
deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) from 2001 to 2006. She is currently professor of
international economics at the J ohns Hopkins School of
Advanced 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 a
physician. Her uncles include the Australian politician Sir
Reginald Wright and physiologist Sir Roy Wright. She
received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and
her 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 published
extensively on policy reform in developing countries, the role of multilateral institutions in the international
economy, and the political economy of trade policy. In her 1996 Presidential address to the American Economic
Association, she explored the lack of congruence between successful trade and development policies enacted
worldwide and prevailing academic views.
She taught at the University of Minnesota from 1959 to 1982 before serving as World Bank Chief Economist
from 1982 to 1986.
After leaving the Bank, she taught at Duke University from 19871993, when she joined the faculty of Stanford
University 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 Development
and 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 between
March 4, 2004 (resignation of Horst Khler), and J une 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 Managing
Director.
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 international
economics at the J ohns 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 the
National Academy of Sciences, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is
the 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 J ose 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 J ersey: 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
1.
^ Eamonn Butler, Public Choice: A Primer, London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2012, p. 75 2.
^ "The Political Economy of Controls: American Sugar," NBER Working Paper 2504 (1988) 3.
J ohns 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. 122 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2950851)
Business positions
Preceded by
Hollis B. Chenery
World Bank Chief Economist
19821986
Succeeded by
Stanley Fischer
Preceded by
Stanley Fischer
First Deputy Managing Director of the
IMF
20012006
Succeeded by
John Lipsky
Preceded by
Horst Khler
Managing Director of the IMF (interim)
March 2004J une 2004
Succeeded by
Rodrigo 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 WisconsinMadison alumni
J ohns 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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