Alice Rivlin, American economist and politician
Alice Mitchell Rivlin (born Georgianna Alice Mitchell; March 4, 1931 – May 14, 2019) was an American economist and budget official. She was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a visiting professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy of Georgetown University who served as the 16th vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 1996 to 1999 and as the 30th director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration from 1994 to 1996, as well as the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1975 to 1983. A member of the Democratic Party, Rivlin was the first woman to hold either post. She was an expert on the U.S. federal budget and macroeconomic policy and co-chaired, with retired U.S. Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM), the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force.