May 10, 2004

Top International Development Executive Addresses June 3 UCSD Economics Roundtable On Global Financial Stability

By Barry Jagoda

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is celebrating its sixtieth anniversary as one of the world’s leading lenders to developing nations and as a foundation for global financial stability. IMF First Deputy Managing Director, Anne O. Krueger, will be speaking on the work of the IMF and a variety of related topics when she addresses the University of California, San Diego Economics Roundtable, June 3. The event, to be held at the Faculty Club on the UCSD campus, begins at 7:30 a. m. and is open to the public.

Dr. Krueger has served, since 2001, as IMF First Deputy Managing Director and, from 1982 to 1986, was the World Bank’s Vice President for Economics and Research. A highly respected academician, she is Herald L. and Caroline L. Ritch Professor in Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Stanford University.

Dr. Krueger was the founding Director of Stanford's Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution. She had previously taught at the University of Minnesota and Duke University. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin.

Anne Krueger 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. A recipient of a number of economic prizes and awards, 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. Recent books edited by Krueger include Reforming India's Economic, Financial and Fiscal Policies (2003); Latin American Macroeconomic Reform: The Second Stage (2003); 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).

In her executive role Dr. Krueger helps oversee the three main types of work of the IMF: The monitoring of national economic and financial developments, and the provision of policy advice, aimed especially at crisis-prevention; lending to countries with balance of payments difficulties, and to low-income countries aimed at poverty reduction and, third, providing countries technical assistance and training. Supporting all three of these activities is IMF work in economic research and statistics.

The formal title of the presentation by Dr. Krueger is Promoting International Financial Stability: The IMF at 60. The Economics Roundtable is open to the public at a cost of $50 per person, which includes breakfast and parking. (Members of the working press are invited to attend at no charge.) For further information, or reservations, contact Edie Munk at (858) 822-0510, or emunk@ucsd.edu.

Media Contacts: Barry Jagoda, (858) 534-8567