Margaret Garritsen de Vries (1922-2009) was an economist and historian known for her work for the International Monetary Fund.
from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1946, under the direction of Paul Samuelson.
[1] She represented the agency on missions to many countries around the world, and became a division chief at the fund in 1957, nearly twenty years before any other women did the same.
This fund is used to pay registration fees for graduate students whose papers have been selected for presentation session at the AEA Annual meetings sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.
[5] In addition, MIT established the Margaret Garritsen deVries Scholarship Fund to assist female graduate students in the field of economics.