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1.4.11
The TIAA-CREF Institute has presented its 2010 Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security to Cabot professor of public policy and professor of economics Kenneth S. Rogoff and Carmen M. Reinhart, Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, coauthors of the best-selling book
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The award honors the late Nobel Prize laureate Paul A. Samuelson, Ph.D. ’41, LL.D. ’72, for his achievements in the field of economics and his service as a CREF trustee from 1974 to 1985. The Samuelson Award is given annually in recognition of an outstanding research publication containing ideas that the public and private sectors can use to maintain and improve America’s lifelong financial well-being. A $10,000 prize will be shared by the winners.
Vice President and World Bank Group Chief Economist
Carmen M. Reinhart is the Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group. Assuming this role on June 15, 2020, Reinhart provides thought leadership for the institution at an unprecedented time of crisis. She also manages the Bank’s Development Economics Department.
Reinhart’s areas of expertise are in international finance, and macroeconomics. Her work has helped to inform the understanding of financial crises in both advanced economies and emerging markets. She has published extensively on capital flows, exchange rate policy, banking and sovereign debt crises, and contagion.
She comes to this position on public service leave from Harvard Kennedy School where she is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System. Previously, she was the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Intern