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Senior Fellow

Alice M. Rivlin

Alice M. Rivlin

Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, Economic Studies
Director, Greater Washington Research at Brookings

Alice Rivlin, the first director of the Congressional Budget Office, is an expert on urban issues as well as fiscal, monetary and social policy. She directs the Greater Washington Research project. 



Expertise

Fiscal and monetary policy; social policy; urban issues

Background

Current Positions
Visiting Professor, Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University

Past Positions
Henry Cohen Professor, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University (2001-2003);Chair, District of Columbia Financial Management Assistance Authority (1998-2001);Vice Chair, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (1996-99);Director, White House Office of Management and Budget (1994-96);Deputy Director, White House Office of Management and Budget (1993-94);Recipient, MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship (1983);Hirst Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University;Director of Economic Studies, Brookings Institution;Founding Director, Congressional Budget Office (1975-83);Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1968-69);President, American Economic Association

Education

Ph.D. (1958), M.A. (1955), Radcliffe College, Harvard University;B.A., Bryn Mawr College, 1952

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Q&A with Alice Rivlin

The Financial Market Bailout

Policy-makers spent a long weekend hashing out details on legislation that would provide up to $700 billion to purchase Wall Street assets, new oversight authority and more foreclosure prevention. Alice Rivlin explains how mortgage securities unraveled, how the deal makers prevailed and what this will mean for the next administration.

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