Margaret Garritsen de Vries (1922-2009) was an economist and historian known for her work for the

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Education

deVries received her B.A. from the

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and her Ph.D. from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

(MIT) in 1946, under the direction of

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International Monetary Fund career

She was among the first employees of the

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

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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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