Jacqueline Murray Brux received her PhD in economics in 1983 from the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor. She is an emeritus professor of economics and founder/director of the
Center for International Development at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls. Her area of
expertise is the economic development of developing countries. Her research includes the
areas of economic development, with special focus on women in development, the effects of
structural reforms, and microenterprise credit for poor women’s entrepreneurial activities. She
has also done extensive research on topics of diversity in the United States. Dr. Brux’s
international experiences include work and research in the countries of Burkina Faso and
Ghana in West Africa; Kenya and Uganda in East Africa; Mexico, Chile, and Cuba in Latin
America; Russia; and Vietnam. She regularly travels to Norway to visit her daughter and grandchildren
