TRIFFIN ROBERT 1911 - 1993 ECONOMIST

Microfiche of papers of Robert Triffin (1911 - 1993). Economist, economic adviser to the OECD and the EEC European monetary policy 1969 - 1974. 'Robert Triffin, le CAEUE de Jean Monnet et les Questions Monetaires Europeennes 1969 - 1974'.

Robert Triffin 1911 - 1993.

Robert Triffin was born in Flobecq, Belgium. He was educated at Kain-lez Tournai, the Catholic University of Louvain and Harvard University. He was an Instructor at Harvard from 1939 to 1942.

In 1942 Triffin left Harvard to become the Chief of the Latin American Division of the government's Federal Reserve System, and changed his interests from price theory to monetary and banking reform. In 1946 he left to become Director of the Exchange Control Division of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 1946 - 1948, and chief representative in Europe 1948 - 1949. He was the Special Policy Adviser to the Economic Co-operation Administration and US Alternate Representative to the European Payments Union 1950 - 1951.

Triffin was consultant to the UN in 1952, the Council of Economic Advisers (US) 1953 - 1954, the Organisation of European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) 1957 - 1958, and the EEC 1958 - 1993 as well as heading numerous monetary and banking reorganisation missions to Latin American countries.

In 1951 Triffin returned to academic life as Professor of Economics at Yale University where he remained until his retirement in 1977. He moved back to Belgium to teach part-time at his alma mater, the Catholic university of Louvain.

His publications include:

• Europe and the Money Muddle: From Bilateralism to Near-Convertibility 1947 - 1956 (1960)
• The Evolution of the International Monetary System(1964)
• The World Money Maze: National Currencies in International Payments(1966)
• Our International Monetary System: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow(1968)

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