Alice Rivlin

Alice Rivlin     ( central banker)
Born	Georgianna Alice Mitchell March 4, 1931  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  U.S.
Died	May 14, 2019 (Age 88)  8),  Washington,  D.C.,  U.S.
Nationality	US
Alma mater	•  Madeira School •  Bryn Mawr College •  Harvard University
Parents	•  Georgianna Peck •  Allan C. G. Mitchell
Children	3
Spouse	•  Lewis Allen Rivlin •  Sidney G. Winter
Member of	Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members, Trilateral Commission
Interests	Marshall Plan
Party	Democratic
Relatives	Samuel Alfred Mitchell
US economist connected to the Brookings Institution who wrote a working paper entitled The Outlook For The Economy And Employment In The United States for the 1984 Bilderberg.  Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve System In office June 25, 1996 - July 16, 1999 Preceded by Alan Blinder Succeeded by Roger Ferguson  Director of the Office of Management and Budget  In office October 17, 1994 - April 26, 1996  Director of the Congressional Budget Office In office February 24, 1975 - August 31, 1983

Dr. Alice M. Rivlin was a US economist connected to the Brookings Institution who wrote a working paper entitled The Outlook For The Economy And Employment In The United States for the 1984 Bilderberg.

Early life

Georgianna Alice Mitchell was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Georgianna Peck and Allan C. G. Mitchell. She was the granddaughter of astronomer Samuel Alfred Mitchell. She grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where her father was on the faculty of Indiana University.

Education

She briefly attended University High School in Bloomington before leaving to attend high school at Madeira School. She then went on to study at Bryn Mawr College. Initially, she wanted to major in history, but after taking an economics course at Indiana University, she decided to change her major to economics.

Rivlin received her Bachelor of Arts in 1952, writing her senior thesis on the economic integration of Western Europe, and upon graduation, she moved to Europe where she worked on the Marshall Plan. Originally, Rivlin wanted to attend graduate school in public administration but was rejected on the grounds that she was a woman of marriageable age. Rivlin took a Ph.D. in economics from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1958.

Career

Alice Rivlin was affiliated several times with the Brookings Institution, including stints in 1957–1966, 1969–1975, 1983–1993, and 1999 to her death. She was a visiting professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. From 1968 to 1969, she was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. In 1971 she authored Systematic Thinking for Social Action. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1973.

Rivlin was the first director of the newly established Congressional Budget Office (CBO) during 1975–1983. As head of the CBO, she was a persistent and vociferous critic of Reaganomics. She was named a 1983 MacArthur Fellow in recognition of her role as CBO creator. After that Dr. Rivlin was deputy director of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 1993 to 1994 and was elevated to OMB director from 1994 to 1996 both in the Clinton administration. President Clinton nominated her as the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 1996 to 1999. Upon confirmation, Rivlin became the highest-ranked woman in the history of the Federal Reserve at that time. She was also chair of the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority from 1998 to 2001.

In 2012, she received a Foremother Award from the National Research Center for Women & Families.

Rivlin was on the board of directors at the National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD). The institute was created at the University of Arizona after the shooting of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, that killed 6 people and wounded 13 others.

Personal life

Rivlin was of Cornish ancestry. In 1955, she married former Justice Department attorney Lewis Allen Rivlin of the Rivlin family, with whom she had three children; they divorced in 1977, although she kept his surname professionally. In 2001 Lewis Allen Rivlin was ordered to pay about $6.5 million for defrauding investors, including an Ecuadorean charity for underprivileged girls.

In 1989, she married economist Sidney G. Winter. She died in Washington, D.C., on May 14, 2019, aged 88.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1984	11 May 1984	13 May 1984	Sweden Saltsjöbaden	The 32nd Bilderberg, held in Sweden
Bill Clinton/Presidency	20 January 1993	20 January 2001		The Bill Clinton administration
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1996	29 August 1996	31 August 1996		The 1996 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1997	28 August 1997	30 August 1997		The 1997 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1999	26 August 1999	28 August 1999		The 1999 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/2000				The 2000 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/2001				The 2001 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/2003	28 August 2003	30 August 2003	US Wyoming Jackson Hole	The 2003 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/2005				The 2005 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium

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