Anne Krueger, professor of international economics at the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, will give a talk on the current international financial situation and the role of the International Monetary Fund. Krueger has a deep knowledge of international economic issues. She is a senior fellow of the Center for International Development and the Herald L. and Caroline Ritch Emeritus Professor of Sciences and Humanities in the Economics Department at Stanford University.

Anne Krueger was first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund from 2001 to 2006. Prior to that, she had taught at Stanford and Duke Universities and was vice president for economics and research at the World Bank. She holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.

Krueger has published extensively on economic development, international trade and finance, and economic policy reform. In addition to her writings on these topics, she has written a number of books and articles on economic growth, international trade, and economic policy in India, South Korea, and Turkey.

Krueger is a Distinguished Fellow and past President of the American Economic Association, a Senior Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the American Philosophical Society.

She will speak at the Gailor Auditorium.