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Date: October 1, 1998
Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund to Speak on the Russian Economy
Princeton, N.J. -- Stanley Fischer, the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, will give a lecture entitled "The Russian Economic Crisis" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, October 13, at 4:30 p.m., in Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium.
Fischer assumed the post of deputy managing director of the IMF in September 1994. Previously he was the Killian Professor and the chair of the economics department at MIT. From 1988 to 1990, he served as the vice president of development economics and as a chief economist at the World Bank. Fischer has also served on the economics faculty of the University of Chicago and has held visiting faculty positions at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Fischer is the author, with Rudiger Dornbusch, of Macroeconomics, which came out in a sixth edition in 1994, and, with Vinod Thomas, of Policies of Economic Development. He has also published extensively in numerous professional journals.
Fischer's lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.