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Anne O. Krueger

Anne O. Krueger

Senior Fellow

About

Anne Krueger is a Senior Fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and the Herald L. and Caroline Ritch Emeritus Professor of Sciences and Humanities in the Economics Department at Stanford University. In 2023, she joined Ukraine Global Faculty as a Global Contributor.

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, the Australian National University, and the Stockholm Institute for International Economics. She holds a BA from Oberlin College and a PhD 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 India, South Korea, and Turkey within her areas of expertise. Her latest book is International Trade: What everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Expertise

Topics

  • International Economics and Finance

In the News

The U.S. must play champion of open world trade again.

Anne O. Krueger wrote in Livemint, 07/14

Xenophobia and nostalgia driving rise of U.S. protectionism.

Anne O. Krueger cited in The Irish Times, 06/16

Biden's Trumpy start on trade.

Anne O. Krueger wrote in Project Syndicate, 05/24

The promise and peril of Central Bank digital currencies.

Anne O. Krueger wrote in Project Syndicate, 05/03

Getting the minimum wage right.

Anne O. Krueger wrote in Project Syndicate, 03/24

Resetting U.S.-China trade relations.

Anne O. Krueger wrote in Project Syndicate, 02/24

Does pandemic debt relief work?

Anne O. Krueger wrote in Project Syndicate, 01/25

Can poor countries avoid a vaccine bidding war?

Anne O. Krueger wrote in Project Syndicate, 12/22

America must mend many fences on trade.

Anne O. Krueger wrote in Project Syndicate, 11/20

Trump's crony capitalism.

Anne O. Krueger wrote in Project Syndicate, 10/23

U.S. game theory specialists win Nobel prize in economics.

Anne O. Krueger cited in The Guardian, 10/12

Time is right for a new international debt architecture.

Anne O. Krueger cited in Financial Times, 10/5