Margaret Garritsen de Vries (1922-2009) was an economist and historian known for her work for the
International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster globa ...
.
Education
deVries received her B.A. from the
University of Michigan
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and her Ph.D. from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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(MIT) in 1946, under the direction of
Paul Samuelson
Paul Anthony Samuelson (May 15, 1915 – December 13, 2009) was an American economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. When awarding the prize in 1970, the Swedish Royal Academies stated that he "h ...
.
International Monetary Fund career
She was among the first employees of the
International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster globa ...
in 1946.
She represented the agency on missions to many countries around the world, and became a division chief at the fund in 1957, nearly twenty years before any other women did the same.
After leaving the fund as an economist as a condition of adopting her children,
she returned part-time as a historian of the institution, eventually serving as the IMF's official historian from 1973 until her retirement in 1987.
Awards and legacy
She was awarded the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award in 2002 in recognition of her work mentoring women in the economics profession.
The
American Economic Association
The American Economic Association (AEA) is a learned society in the field of economics. It publishes several peer-reviewed journals acknowledged in business and academia. There are some 23,000 members.
History and Constitution
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established the Margaret deVries Memorial Fund in her memory in 2010. This fund is used to pay registration fees for graduate students whose papers have been selected for presentation session at the AEA Annual meetings sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.
In addition, MIT established the Margaret Garritsen deVries Scholarship Fund to assist female graduate students in the field of economics.
Selected works
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References
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American women economists
20th-century American economists
University of Michigan alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Economic historians
International economists
1922 births
2009 deaths
International Monetary Fund people
American officials of the United Nations
20th-century American women
21st-century American women