Alice Rivlin, Brookings Institute's Senior Fellow and Director of its Greater Washington Research Program in Economic Studies will open this year's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center speaker series. Rivlin will speak on Monday, Oct. 11, at 7:30 p.m., in the Chapel. The title of Rivlin's remarks is "Why The Federal Budget Matters to Your Economic Future" in conjunction with this year's Levitt series titled "U.S. Budget: Power, Politics & Priorities." All presentations in this series are free and open to the public.
In addition to her Brookings Institute positions, Rivlin is also a visiting professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. A former vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1996 to 1999 and director of the White House Office of Management and Budget from 1994 to 1996, she is the author of several books including Restoring Fiscal Sanity: How to Balance the Budget (co-editor with Isabel V. Sawhill - 2004), Beyond the Dot.coms: The Economic Promise of the Internet (with Robert E. Litan - 2001), The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution ( co-editor with Robert E. Litan 2001), Reviving the American Dream: The Economy, the States, and the Federal Government (1992), and Caring for the Disabled Elderly ( with Joshua M. Wiener 1988).
