Margaret Garritsen de Vries

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Margaret Garritsen de Vries
BornFebruary 11, 1922
Detroit, Michigan
DiedDecember 18, 2009
Bethesda, Maryland
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spouse(s)Barend de Vries
AwardsCarolyn Shaw Bell Award, 2002
Outstanding Washington Woman Economist, 1987
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
Economic history
InstitutionsInternational Monetary Fund
Doctoral advisorPaul Samuelson

Margaret Garritsen de Vries (1922-2009) was among the first employees of the International Monetary Fund in 1946.[1]

Education[]

deVries received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts of Technology (MIT)

International Monetary Fund career[]

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]

Awards and legacy[]

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] In addition, MIT established the Margaret Garritsen deVries Scholarship Fund to assist female graduate students in the field of economics.

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. ^ Jump up to: a b "Margaret Garritsen deVries, 87; IMF economist and historian". The Washington Post. 2010-01-01. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "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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