Alice Rivlin
Alice Mitchell Rivlin ( born March 4, 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American business manager, who was also director of the Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ).
Life
Rivlin first studied economics at Bryn Mawr College and graduated in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Economics) from. A subsequent post-graduate studies in economics at Radcliffe College, she finished in 1955 with a Master of Arts (MA Economics). Finally, she acquired in 1958 at Radcliffe College a Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D. Economics) and was then first as an economist and political analyst at the Brookings Institution operates.
In 1966 she entered the service of President Johnson and was until 1968, Deputy Assistant to the health PRIME, education and welfare Minister for Programme Coordination ( Deputy Assistant U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare ), then there till 1969 Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and thus a close associate of then-Prime Minister John W. Gardner and Wilbur J. Cohen. She then returned as a research scientist back to the Brookings Institution.
In 1975 their appeal to the first director of the newly created Budget Office ( Congressional Budget Office ) of the Congress of the United States and held that post until 1983. In 1983 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Later in 1986 she was the first woman president of the American Economic Association ( AEA).
After a year as a Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1993 to 1994, she was on 17 October 1994 by U.S. President Bill Clinton became the successor Leon Panetta, Chief of Staff of the White House as Director of the Office of management and Budget called. She was not only a member of the Cabinet Clinton, but also the first and so far only female head of this Executive Office of the U.S. President.
On 13 September 1996 it was followed by Franklin Raines as Director of the OMB. She herself was then vice chairman of the Federal Reserve System and has held this office until 16 July 1999. At the same time it was at times from 1998 to 2001 chairman of the District of Columbia Financial Control Board.
In 1999 she was first Senior Fellow for studies of economic programs at the Brookings Institution and is there since January 2001 Director of Fort bulges in the Greater Washington, DC. Furthermore, Alice Rivlin since September 2003 Visiting professor of public policy institutions at Georgetown University.
Currently she is also a board member of the NYSE Euro Next and also in early 2010 by President Barack Obama was a member of the National Commission for the responsibility and reform of taxes ( National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform ) appointed.