Dear NBER Board Members, Researchers, and Staff Members -
Please join me in congratulating four NBER researchers who have been
honored by the American Economic Association (AEA).
Three Research Associates were named AEA Distinguished Fellows.
I am sure that you will be pleased to learn that the list includes
James Poterba, the NBER’s President. Jim is the Mitsui Professor of
Economics at MIT and is a public finance economist whose research
focuses on tax policy and household finance. In addition to serving as
the Bureau’s President, he is affiliated with the Bureau’s Economics
of Aging, Corporate Finance and Public Economics programs.
The other honored Research Associates include Barry Eichengreen, a leading
scholar in economic history and international macroeconomics, who is
the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished
Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of
California, Berkeley. He is affiliated with four NBER programs:
Development of the American Economy, International Finance and
Macroeconomics (IFM), International Trade and Investment, and Monetary
Economics (ME).
Also honored was Carmen Reinhart, who currently serves
as the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank.
Carmen is on leave from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University, where she is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the
International Financial System, and from the NBER, where she is a
member of the IFM and ME programs. Her research focuses on
international finance and economic development, with particular
attention to financial crises and debt.
A fourth Distinguished Fellow, named posthumously, is Sadie T.M.
Alexander. She was the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in
Economics in the United States. Alexander was excluded from academic positions
on account of her race and gender, but completed a law degree after
her Ph.D. and was a life-long advocate for civil rights and economic
equality.
One of this year's AEA Foreign Honorary Members also is an NBER
affiliate. John Van Reenen, who holds the Ronald Coase Chair in
Economics and is a School Professor at the London School of Economics,
is a Research Associate in the Labor Studies and the Productivity,
Innovation, and Entrepreneurship programs.
The AEA press release covering these and other award announcements may
be found at:
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I know that you will join me in saluting our newly honored Bureau
colleagues’ contributions to the Economics profession and in thanking
them for their important participation in the Bureau’s programs.
John Lipsky
Chair, NBER Board of Directors
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Received on Thu Apr 28 2022 - 08:22:15 EDT
