Bruce Fitzgerald:
CLASS OF 1961
Virginia Beach High SchoolClass of 1961
Virginia beach, VA
Bruce's Story
1961 to the present in 255 words:
After I left VBHS I got a BS and an MS in Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech, where I was editor of the weekly newspaper, the Technique. In graduate school, I married and had a son. I worked two years for an American consulting firm in Ottawa, Canada and returned to study economics at Duke where I got a Ph. D.
I taught five years in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. My wife and I divorced and, realizing I wasn't going to get tenure at Penn, I moved to Washington to work in the Office of Management and Budget during the Reagan Administration. After five years I took a job at the World Bank. I remarried and had two more children w...Expand for more
ho most people think are my grandchildren. And, they could be if my first son had been doing his job properly.
I worked in the World Bank for 20 years, where I became fluent in Spanish and travelled to nearly 30 countries. My work principally involved advising governments on policies to improve productivity, accelerate economic growth, and reduce poverty. It's pretty simple: get out of the way and let private markets work.
I retired in 2005 at the mandatory retirement age, 62. I continue to work at the Bank part time on consulting assignments. We live in downtown DC, a mile from the White House, and have a second home on the Eastern Shore in Accomac, Virginia where we spend summers.
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