March 6, 2003

Contact: Sarah Ray

802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: March 6, 2003

MIDDLEBURY,

VT - Alice M. Rivlin, who was founding director of the Congressional

Budget Office from 1975-1983, director of the White House Office of Management

and Budget from 1994-1996, and vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board

from 1996-1999, will give a lecture at Middlebury College titled “Greed,

Ethics and Public Policy,” Monday, March 17, at 4:30 p.m. The event,

which is free and open to the public, will take place in the conference

room of the Robert A. Jones House on Hillcrest Road off College Street

(Route 125). Rivlin’s talk is the 2003 Christian A. Johnson Economics

Lecture.

Rivlin is currently the Henry

Cohen Professor at the Milano Graduate School of the New School University.

She is also a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution,

where she directs the Greater Washington Research Program.

A recipient of a MacArthur

Foundation Prize Fellowship, Rivlin has taught at Harvard and George Mason

Universities. A past president of the American Economic Association, she

is currently a member of the board of directors for several organizations,

including The Washington Post Co.

Rivlin is a frequent contributor

to newspapers, television and radio. Her books include “Systematic

Thinking for Social Action” (1971) and “Reviving the American

Dream” (1992). She and Robert Litan are the co-authors of “Beyond

the Dot.coms” (2001).

For more information, contact

Charlotte Tate at the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Middlebury

College, at tate@middlebury.edu

or 802-443-5795.