Alice Rivlin

Alice Mitchell Rivlin (March 4, 1931 – May 14, 2019) was an American economist. She was the U.S. Federal Reserve and budget official. She was Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and founding Director of the Congressional Budget Office. 

She was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and visiting professor at Georgetown University. Rivlin also co-chaired, with former Senator Pete Domenici, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Debt Reduction Task Force.

Personal life
Rivlin was of Cornish ancestry.Paulette Olson, Engendering Economics: Conversations With Women Economists in the United States, Routledge, March 29, 2002 In 1955, she married former Justice Department attorney Lewis Allen Rivlin of the Rivlin family, with whom she had three children; they divorced in 1977.Chicago Tribune: "Ex-husband of Fed official ordered to pay $6.5 million"  August 29, 2001  In 1989, she married economist Sidney G. Winter, Jr. 

Rivlin died on May 14, 2019 in Washington, D.C. from cancer, aged 88.

References

Other websites
Home page at the Brookings Institution

Interview with the Minneapolis Fed
Interview with Federal Reserve
Testimony of Alice Rivlin to Congress, October 5, 1977, on the potential energy savings of urban transportation.  
Alice Rivlin profile at LittleSis
Statements and Speeches of Alice M. Rivlin

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