Ann Dryden Witte (born August 28, 1942) is an American economist, known for her work on "a variety of interesting and eclectic problems" and as a "prolific author of books, monographs, and professional articles".
[3] Ann Dryden was born in Oceanside, New York, the daughter of a husband-wife team that ran a used machinery business on Long Island.
[1][4] In 1969, as a graduate student at North Carolina State University, she married Leo Witte.
[4] Her dissertation was Employment in the Manufacturing Sector of Developing Economies: A Study of Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.
[4][5] During this time she worked as an economic and systems analyst in the federal government from 1963 to 1967, and then as an instructor at Tougaloo College and North Carolina State University.