Lacey W. Gallagher, a managing director at the investment firm Credit Suisse, died Feb. 27, 2008, of ovarian cancer. She was 45.

Gallagher graduated from Wellesley College, after growing up on the East Coast and abroad, mostly in Hong Kong and the Philippines. In 1988, she received a master’s degree from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton.

Gallagher had a successful career as an emerging-markets economist, having been with Standard & Poor’s before joining Credit Suisse (successor to the First Boston Corp.). She was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

She is survived by her husband, Mark Carlebach; her parents, Trudi and Hugh Gallagher; and a brother, Keith.

Graduate Class of 1988