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EXPERTS ON TAJIKISTAN AND THE U.S. ECONOMY TO SPEAK AT OBERLIN COLLEGE IN FEBRUARY
JANUARY 31, 2002-- Two distinguished speakers, one in the field of diplomacy and the other in economics, will speak at Oberlin College on February 11 and 12, respectively.
Rashid Alimov
Rashid Alimov, permanent representative of the Republic of Tajikistan to the United Nations and ambassador to the United States, will speak on "Terrorism, Afghanistan and Tajikistan" on Monday, February 11 at 4:30 P.M. in the West Lecture Hall of the Science Center. His appearance is sponsored by the Office of Oberlin College President Nancy S. Dye.
Alimov has held the rank of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary since 1995. He has held the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan since 1992, and has been a member of the Tajik delegation to the General Assembly sessions since 1993. At the 54th session of the General Assembly (1999-2000) he was elected its deputy president.
In 1986 he was elected a member of the parliament of the Republic of Tajikistan, serving in that capacity through 1994. From 1990 to 1992 he served as the parliament's chairman of the committee on youth issues, and as state adviser to the president of the Republic of Tajikistan on social and political issues and public relations.
Ambassador Alimov graduated from the Tajik State University in 1975, and the Russian Academy of Administration in 1989. He has a Ph.D. degree in sociology and is the author of scientific publications and monographs on issues of inter-ethnic relations, youth issues and international affairs. He was awarded the Order of Friendship (order of Druzhba narodov) in 1986, and the Order of Honor (order of Sharaf) of the Republic of Tajikistan.
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman, former Ford International Professor of Economics at MIT and current Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, will appear at Oberlin on Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 8:00 P.M. in Finney Chapel. His topic will be "The Japan Syndrome: Why Can't We Lick the Business Cycle?" Mr. Krugman's talk is sponsored by the Robert S. Danforth Memorial Lecture Fund, established to promote closer ties between Oberlin College students and the fields of business and finance.
Krugman has been named one of the top international economists by The Economist for his work in international trade and finance. He is one of the founders of the "new trade theory," a major rethinking of the theory of international trade. His current academic research is focused on the application of ideas from complexity theory and the concept of self-organizing systems to economics.
A widely published and highly acclaimed author, his work includes The Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science, as well as The Return of Depression Economics (Norton & Co. 1999), which looks at the alarming string of financial crises that plagued various economies around the globe in the 1990s, especially the Asian contagion, and sees an "eerie resemblance to the Great Depression." Instead of the "new world order" promised by the triumph of capitalism over socialism, "the world economy has turned out to be a much more dangerous place than we imagined."
A consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Trilateral Commission, the European Commission, the U.S. State Department and the United Nations, Krugman is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. A member of the Group of Thirty, he received the B.A. degree from Yale University and the Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Media Contact: Betty Gabrielli
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