May 2008 Master's Degree Ceremony Keynote Speaker

Anne O. Krueger is Professor of International Economics at the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. She was First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 2001 to 2006. Prior to that, she was Herald L. and Caroline Ritch Professor of Sciences and Humanities in the Economics Department at Stanford University, as well as Founding Director of the Stanford Center for International Development and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution. Earlier, she had been University Professor of Economics at Duke University, Vice President for Economics and Research at the World Bank, and Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota. She has held visiting professorships at a number of universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bogazici University (Istanbul), the Indian Institute for Research on International Economic Relations (New Delhi), Monash University and the Australian National University (Australia), and the Institute for International Economic Studies (Stockholm). She holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.

 

Professor Krueger is a Distinguished Fellow and past President of the American Economic Association, a Senior Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society and the American Philosophical Society.