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		Amy Finkelstein of MIT and NBER has won the CSWEP 2008 Elaine Bennett Research Prize Amy Finkelstein of MIT and NBER has won the CSWEP 2008 Elaine Bennett Research Prize. This prize will be given to her at the annual business meeting of the American Economics Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) on Saturday, January 3, 2009, from 5:00-6:00 pm in the Golden Gate 4 Room of the Hilton San Francisco Hotel.

		Amy Finkelstein and Jeffrey Brown are the 2008 winners of the TIAA-CREF/Paul Samuelson Award MIT faculty member Amy Finkelstein (Ph.D. 2001) and Jeffrey Brown (Ph.D. 1999), the William G. Karnes Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois, are the 2008 winners of the TIAA-CREF/Paul Samuelson Award for contributions to Lifetime Financial Security.

		President -elect Barack Obama selects economists President-elect Barack Obama has selected Lawrence Summers (SB 1975) to head the National Economic Council, Christina Romer (Ph.D. 1985) as Chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Austan Goolsbee (Ph.D. 1995) As a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Summers, who served in the Treasury Department for eight years in the Clinton administration and was Secretary of the Treasury between 1999 and 2001, is currently the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University. Romer is the Class of 1957-Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California-Berkeley. Goolsbee is the Robert Gwinn Professor at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

		Robert Hall Named President of American Economic Association Robert Hall (Ph.D. '67) is the President-Elect of the American Economic Association for 2009. James Poterba is one of the Association's two Vice-Presidents, and Daron Acemoglu is a newly-elected member of the Executive Committee.

		Paul Krugman Wins Nobel Prize This year's Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Paul Krugman, MIT Ph.D'77 and a member of our faculty for close to two decades.

		James Poterba is President of the NBER James Poterba became President of the National Bureau of Economic Research on July 1, 2008, and remains on the MIT Economics faculty in a reduced-time position.

		Jonathan Gruber Elected to Academy of Arts and Sciences Jonathan Gruber has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among the new 2008 fellows, he is joined by MIT Economics graduates Roger Gordon, Jeremy Stein, and Michael Whinston.

		Olivier Blanchard Named Chief Economist of IMF Olivier Blanchard has been named the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund effective September 1, 2008. In this role he will develop and coordinate the IMF's advice regarding economic policy, and oversee the Research Department. Olivier will take leave from MIT for the duration of this appointment.

		Jeff Harris named Distinguished Guest of Salamanca Jeff Harris has been named a Distinguished Guest of the City of Salamanca, Spain, in recognition of his important collaborative activities with the Spanish Association for Health Economics.

		David Autor Named Editor of Journal of Economic Perspectives David Autor has been named the next editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, with a term to begin in January 2009.

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