Margaret Garritsen de Vries explained

Margaret Garritsen de Vries
Birth Date:February 11, 1922
Birth Place:Detroit, Michigan
Death Date:December 18, 2009
Death Place:Bethesda, Maryland
Citizenship:United States
Alma Mater:University of Michigan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral Advisor:Paul Samuelson
Spouse:Barend de Vries
Field:Economics
Economic history
Work Institutions:International Monetary Fund
Prizes:Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, 2002
Outstanding Washington Woman Economist, 1987

Margaret Garritsen de Vries (1922-2009) was an economist and historian known for her work for the International Monetary Fund.[1] [2]

Education

deVries received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1946, under the direction of Paul Samuelson.

International Monetary Fund career

She was among the first employees of the International Monetary Fund in 1946. 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.[3] After leaving the fund as an economist as a condition of adopting her children,[4] 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.

Awards and legacy

She was awarded the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award in 2002 in recognition of her work mentoring women in the economics profession.

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

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. News: 2010-01-01 . Margaret Garritsen deVries, 87; IMF economist and historian . en-US . The Washington Post . 2017-02-02 . 0190-8286.
  2. Laskaridis . Christina . 2022 . "Writing History as a Way of Life": The Life and Work of Margaret Marie Garritsen de Vries . History of Political Economy . 10.1215/00182702-10085668 . 0018-2702.
  3. Web site: DR. MARGARET GARRITSEN DE VRIES RECIPIENT OF THE 2002 CAROLYN SHAW BELL AWARD. www.aeaweb.org.
  4. News: Margaret de Vries Reflects on Her Pioneering Role. Newsletter of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. Fall 2003.
  5. Web site: CSWEP: Margaret deVries Memorial Fund. www.aeaweb.org. en. 2017-02-02.