March 14, 2010
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Dr. Marie Wilson
Associate Director and Chief Program Officer
Georgia Council on Economic Education
Atlanta, Georgia
Marie Wilson is the Associate Director and Chief Program Officer of the Georgia Council on Economic Education, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her primary responsibilities include grant writing, program development, administration, and teacher education for this state-wide business and education partnership with its network of twelve university-based centers. Dr. Wilson holds degrees in economics and education from the University of Strathclyde and Jordanhill College of Education in Glasgow, Scotland, and Vanderbilt University.
Marie Wilson has taught economics on a full-time basis in three countries, on two continents at the high school and university levels. She began her career in her native Scotland and then emigrated to Canada, where she helped introduce economics into the high school curriculum. Later, as a public school administrator in the northeastern United States, she encouraged the inclusion of economic education in the curriculum at all grade levels. From 1980–85, Dr. Wilson was director of a National Economic Education Center which was a division of The Fraser Institute, an economic research organization in Vancouver, Canada. While there, she implemented an innovative series of programs for teachers in various Canadian universities.
Since joining the Georgia Council on Economic Education in 1987, Marie Wilson has initiated a wide variety of new programs, developed educational materials, and conducted numerous workshops for teachers. More recently, she has taught courses in economic education at the University of Georgia in addition to her responsibilities at the Council. As a faculty member of EconomicsInternational, National Council on Economic Education, Dr. Wilson has taught economics to teachers in Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia, and has led study tours to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine for U.S. educators.
Dr. Wilson is a member of the National Association of Economic Educators, the Georgia Association of Economic Educators, the American Educational Research Association, the Association of Private Enterprise Educators, and a former Board Member of the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education and Junior Achievement of British Columbia. In addition to sitting on AIT’s Board of Directors, she chairs the International Association for Citizenship, Social, and Economics Education, which has members in nineteen countries. Dr. Wilson is the recipient of the 2005 National Council on Economic Education/National Association of Economic Educators International Award for her contributions to economic education on an international level.
February 2007