Leads Summer Institute

Geraldine (Gerri) Alpert of Edgartown and Boston became the fourth chairman of the Summer Institute at the annual meeting of the organizing committee, held August 24 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center. She will lead a board which also includes Stanley Snider, founder of the Summer Institute, and his two successors as chairman, Carole Cohen and Betsy Sheerr.

Ms. Alpert, now retired, spent her professional life as an economist, specializing in antitrust economics. She received graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She was a vice president of National Economic Research Associates, an international economic consulting firm, before establishing her own consulting firm, GAlpert Associates.