Rivlin, Alice (Mitchell) (1931- )

US economist and government official. In 1993 she was appointed deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration. A respected analyst of the US economy, she wrote several studies of economic problems, including Economic Choices 1987 and Caring for the Disabled Elderly: Who Will Pay? 1988.

She was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of a nuclear physicist. She graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1952 and earned a PhD from Radcliffe in 1958. She became a staff member of the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, in 1957, was deputy assistant at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare 1966-69, was the first director of the Congressional Budget Office 1975-83, and was director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution 1983-87.