The American Economy: how is it performing both nationally and globally?
30th Anniversary Program
Women’s Economic Round Table®
of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program in Economics and Business Journalism
Celebrating three decades of educating the public and informing policy makers about
national and global economics, business, and finance.
ROBERT A. MUNDELL 1999 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Professor, Columbia University
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ - 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Professor, Columbia University
PAUL A. VOLCKER - Former Chairman, Federal Reserve System
Moderator
TERESA TRITCH - Board of Editors, The New York Times; Knight-Bagehot Alumnae
Questioners
HEIDI HARTMAN, Ph.D. - President, Institute for Women’s Policy Research;
MacArthur Grant Recipient
MARINA v.N. WHITMAN, Ph.D. - Professor, University of Michigan; Author;
Corporate Director
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Reception 5:30 p.m. ~ Program 6:00–7:30 p.m.
731 Lexington Avenue @ 58th St.
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Women’s Economic Round Table
Founded in 1978 by Maria Sidney Rolfe and Amelia Augustus, Ed.D.
Ever mindful of the saying, “Where boasting ends, there dignity begins,” I am tempted to leave the rest of this page blank. Undaunted, I present only the facts to reveal our achievements as part of our 30th Anniversary Year Celebration.
We continue to fulfill our three missions of:
(1) Educating the public and informing policy makers about national and global economics, business, and finance;
(2) Fostering the advancement and visibility of women; and
(3) Giving women a forum to demonstrate their expertise while educating the public.
We accomplished this by:
Presenting 180 programs
Featuring 494 program speakers and panelists
Celebrating 64 honorees and prize winners
Gaining coverage from 75 outlets in the print and electronic media, resulting in world-wide publicity
Cooperating with 230 profit and non-profit organizations
Giving thousands of references, recommendations, and referrals for members and friends for directorships, professional positions and affiliations, and publicity
These accomplishments were made possible thanks to our dedicated directors, members, friends and supporters. In addition, we have the good fortune of WERT continuing in perpetuity thanks to Harvard University where our archive is housed and Columbia University’s “adoption” of our program by the Knight-Bagehot Program. Our deepest appreciation to all of you.
Amelia Augustus, Ed.D.
Co-founder and Director
Women’s Economic Round Table
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ROBERT A. MUNDELL
Prof. Mundell received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1999. Since 1974, he has been Professor of Economics at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. and was the Post-Doctoral Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Chicago in 1956-57.
His writings include many books, and more than a hundred articles in scientific journals. These include articles on international economic theory. He is known as the father of the theory of optimum currency areas. Co-founder of supply-side economics, he pioneered the theory of the monetary and fiscal policy mix, the theory of inflation and interest and growth, and the monetary approach to the balance of payments. Because of this expertise, Prof. Mundell has been an adviser to many international agencies and governments.
Prof. Mundell received a Guggenheim Prize, the Jacques Rueff Medal and Prize, the Docteur Honoris Causa from the University of Paris, an Honorary Professorship at Renmin University in China, the Distinguished Fellow Award from the American Economic Association, and was made a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
(From Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1999, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 2000)
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
Prof. Joseph Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001. He was former chief economist at the World Bank. Now he has appointments at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, the Economics Department of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Business. Prof. Stiglitz made seminal and fundamental contributions to every subfield of economic theory including: microeconomics, international economics, labor economics, financial economics, and development economics. He published over 300 papers, and a dozen books.
His career began at Yale, where he became a tenured professor at the age of 27. At the age of 29, he became a Fellow of the Econometric Society and is a member of the National Academy of Science.
Prof. Stiglitz is the recipient of the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to the American economist under the age of 40 who has made the most significant contributions to the subject.
He has significantly influenced the making and evaluation of economic policy. Prof. Stiglitz served on President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers – first as a member and later as chairman.
PAUL A. VOLCKER
Mr. Volcker earned his bachelors, summa cum laude, from Princeton and a degree in political economy and government from Harvard.
He served in a variety of positions with the Treasury, Chase Manhattan Bank, and the New York Fed. Mr. Volcker’s experience with the New York Fed. began when he worked as a research assistant. He returned there as an economist in the research department in 1952, and became a special assistant in the securities department in 1955. Two years later, he resigned to become a financial economist at Chase Manhattan Bank. In 1962, he joined the Treasury as Director, Office of Financial Analysis, and in 1963, he was appointed Deputy Undersecretary for Monetary Affairs. In 1965, he rejoined Chase Manhattan Bank as vice president and director. From 1969 to 1974, he was Undersecretary of the Treasury.
Mr. Volcker became president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on August 1, 1975, at the age of 47. As president, he also served as vice chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, the group responsible for formulating the nation's monetary policy for Monetary Affairs.
Mr. Volcker was named chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System by President Carter, and was sworn in on Aug. 6, 1979, and served until Aug. 11, 1987. He then joined the firm of James D. Wolfensohn as chairman. At present, he has his own firm and serves on corporate boards and commissions.
Heidi Hartmann is the President of the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research that she founded in 1987 to meet the need for women-centered, policy-oriented research. Dr. Hartmann is also a Research Professor at George Washington University.
In 1994, she received a MacArthur Fellowship Award for her work in the field of women and economics. She is Vice-Chair of the National Council of Women’s Organizations and co-editor of the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. She is a co-author of Still A Man’s Labor Market: The Long-Term Earnings Gap; Unnecessary Losses: Costs to Americans of the Lack of Family and Medical Leave; Equal Pay for Working Families; and Survival at the Bottom: The Income Packages of Low-Income Families with Children. She has published numerous articles in journals and books and her work was translated into more than a dozen languages. She lectures widely on women, economics, and public policy; frequently testifies before the U.S. Congress; and is often cited as an authority in the media. Prior to founding IWPR, Dr. Hartmann was on the faculties of Rutgers University and the New School for Social Research and worked at the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences.
TERESA TRITCH
Ms. Tritch specializes in economic issues and tax policy at The New York Times. Before joining the editorial board of The New York Times, she spent 12 years at Money magazine. She has also been a contributing editor for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, covering non-profits, and for the Gallup Management Journal, covering workplace issues. She is co-editor of a book on Iraq, "America at War," a joint project of CBS and Simon and Schuster. Ms. Tritch, a Los Angeles native, holds a B.A. from UCLA in German and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. In 2000, she was a Knight-Bagehot fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia University.
MARINA v. N. WHITMAN
Prof. Whitman teaches Business Administration and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. From 1979 until 1992 she was an officer of the General Motors Corporation, first as Vice President and Chief Economist and later as Vice President and Group Executive for Public Affairs. This included the staffs of Economics, Environmental Activities, Industry-Government Relations and Public Relations. She also serves, or has served, as a Director of several leading multinational corporations.
Prior to her appointment at GM, Prof. Whitman was a member of the faculty in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh as a Distinguished Public Service Professor of Economics in 1973. She served as a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers in 1972-73, while on leave from the University.
Prof. Whitman received a B.A. in government from Radcliffe College (now Harvard University) and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Columbia University. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, honors and awards, and holds more than twenty honorary degrees.
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