Margaret Garritsen de Vries

Margaret Garritsen de Vries
Born February 11, 1922
Detroit, Michigan
Died December 18, 2009
Bethesda, Maryland
Residence Bethesda, Maryland
Citizenship United States
Alma mater University of Michigan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spouse(s) Barend de Vries
Awards Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, 2002
Outstanding Washington Woman Economist, 1987
Scientific career
Fields Economics
Economic history
Institutions International Monetary Fund
Doctoral advisor Paul Samuelson

Margaret Garritsen de Vries (1922-2009) was among the first employees of the International Monetary Fund in 1946.[1] 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.[2] After leaving the fund as an economist as a condition of adopting her children,[3] 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.[1] She was awarded the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award in 2002 in recognition of her work mentoring women in the economics profession.[2]

The American Economic Association 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.[4]

Selected works

  • De Vries, Margaret Garritsen (1986). The IMF in a changing world 1945-85. International Monetary Fund.
  • De Vries, Margaret Garritsen (1987). Balance of payments adjustment, 1945 to 1986: The IMF experience. International Monetary Fund.

References

  1. 1 2 "Margaret Garritsen deVries, 87; IMF economist and historian". The Washington Post. 2010-01-01. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
  2. 1 2 "DR. MARGARET GARRITSEN DE VRIES RECIPIENT OF THE 2002 CAROLYN SHAW BELL AWARD". www.aeaweb.org.
  3. ↑ "Margaret de Vries Reflects on Her Pioneering Role". Newsletter of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. Fall 2003.
  4. ↑ "CSWEP: Margaret deVries Memorial Fund". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
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