Richard E. Quandt
USA

Professor of Economics, emeritus
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1021

Richard E. Quandt was born in Hungary and obtained his university education in the US, receiving a BA in Economics from Princeton University, and an MA and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He taught at Princeton University from 1956 to 1995 and has specialized in econometrics and mathematical economics. He is the author or co-author of over 10 books and 150 articles published in various professional journals. His scholarly contribution in various areas of academic interest has been recognized and appreciated worldwide. He was a consultant of various governmental agencies and corporations. Since 1990 he has been Senior Advisor at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where he directed the East European Program, co-directed the Electronic and Digital Library Program, and is a staff member in the South African Program. He received honorary doctorates from Hungarian, Slovak, and Canadian universities. For his great impact on the development of Polish libraries' computerization Richard Quandt has been also awarded a Medal of Merit by Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland, Merit Citation and Medal Merentibus of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. He retains an affiliation with Princeton University as a Senior Research Scholar.

He can be reached at req@quandt.com.

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ICIMSS is an outstanding conception the time for which is clearly right. Librarians in Central and Eastern Europe need access to the most modern teaching methods in information technology, and ICIMMS will fill this need brilliantly, so that librarians can be navigators and information providers for the benefit of scholarly communication in the new information age.

 

Richard E. Quandt