Paul Krugman, professor of economics and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Nobel Prize winner and New York Times columnist will be the keynote speaker at the inaugural conference of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the Woodrow Wilson School on Thursday, April 19, 2012, at 4:30 p.m., in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. The address is free and open to the public, but tickets are required for entry.

Established in 2011, the Julis-Rabinowitz Center is a research and teaching center that focuses on using in-depth knowledge of financial markets to improve the design and implementation of public policies.  The Center was made possible by a generous gift from Mitch Julis ’77.

Krugman is the author or editor of dozens of books and several hundred articles, primarily about international trade and international finance.  He is nationally known for his twice-weekly columns in The New York Times and his monthly columns in Fortune Magazine and Slate. He was the Ford International Professor of International Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has served on the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers.

A limited number of tickets to Dodds will be available to the general public and will be distributed through a wait line on the day of the event, starting at 4:00 p.m.

For those unable to secure a ticket, the talk will be simulcast in Bowls 001, 002, and 016, on the lower level of Robertson Hall for non-ticket holders.  Seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

The event will be webcast live at http://hulk03.princeton.edu:8080/WebMedia/channels/ and archived online for later viewing on the Woodrow Wilson School’s Webmedia site – http://wws.princeton.edu/webmedia.

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