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Professor of Sciences and Humanities, Emeritus

Anne O. Krueger

Senior Fellow Emeritus
Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences

Herald L. and Caroline Ritch Emeritus Professor of Science and Humanities, Emeritus
Stanford King Center on Global Development

Founding Director
Stanford King Center on Global Development

Anne Krueger is a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Development (of which she was the founding Director) and the Herald L. and Caroline Ritch Emeritus Professor of Sciences and Humanities in the Economics Department at Stanford University. Currently, she is a professor at the John Hopkins University, School for Advanced International Studies.

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. From 1982 to 1986, she was Vice President, Economics and Research at the World Bank. She had earlier been Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota.

Professor Krueger has held visiting Professorships at a number of universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, Bogazici University (Istanbul), the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), Monash University and the Australian National University, and the Stockholm Institute for International Economics. She holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.

Professor 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 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.

Focal Areas: Global Development and Trade, Innovation and Technology, Money and Finance, Regulation and Competition

Education

PhD, Economics, University of Wisconsin, 1958
MS, Economics, University of Wisconsin, 1956
BA, Economics, Oberlin College, 1953