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Assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury to speak Tuesday
Mark
Reutter, Business & Law Editor
(217) 333-0568; mreutter@illinois.edu
11/18/02
CHAMPAIGN,
Ill. — Richard
H. Clarida, assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department, will
give a lecture on "The United States in the World Economy"
Tuesday (Nov. 19) at the College of
Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
The lecture will begin at 5 p.m. in 141 Wohlers Hall, 1206 S. Sixth
St., Champaign.
Clarida began serving in the treasury department last January after
being nominated for the post by President George W. Bush. Clarida’s
office is responsible for the review and analysis of international and
domestic economic issues as well as financial markets.
Before joining the Bush administration, Clarida was the chairman of
the economics department at Columbia University.
Clarida earned a bachelor’s degree in economics at Illinois in
1979, then received both his master’s and doctorate in economics
at Harvard University.
The lecture is free and open to the campus community and public. It
is co-sponsored by CBA and the Illinois Department of Economics.
