- Robert Roosa
Robert Vincent Roosa (
June 21 ,1918 –December 23 ,1993 ) was an American economist and banker. He served as Treasury Undersecretary for Monetary Affairs during the Kennedy administration.Born in
Marquette, Michigan , he studied at theUniversity of Michigan , receiving his A.B. in 1939. He received aRhodes Scholarship but due to the outbreak of war in Europe did not attend Oxford. [cite web
url=http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/factdim.html
title=Facts About Michigan
publisher=University of Michigan] [cite news
url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,874238-2,00.html
title=Ornaments on the Tree
date=January 6th, 1961
work=Time] Instead, he remained at Michigan, taking M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1940 and 1942 respectively. Between 1939 and 1943, he taught economics at Michigan,Harvard , and at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology . DuringWorld War II he served in London as assistant toCharles P. Kindleberger in theEnemy Objectives Unit , identifying potentially valuable enemy targets.From 1946 he worked at the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York , ultimately reaching the position of vice president in the bank's research department. He then joined the Treasury, under John F. Kennedy, as Undersecretary for Monetary Affairs, where he helped to address thebalance of payments problem facing America at that time. He continued under the administration ofLyndon B. Johnson until 1964.He joined the Wall Street firm of
Brown Brothers Harriman as a partner, in 1965. He was a director at theCouncil on Foreign Relations between 1966 and 1981, and a trustee of theRockefeller Foundation . [cite news
url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,878295,00.html
title=A Cry for Courage and Compassion
work=Time
date=June 1st, 1970] He also became a member of the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, theGroup of Thirty in 1979. He was also a member of theTrilateral Commission . [cite news
url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,911910,00.html
title=Carter's Brain Trusts
date=December 20th, 1976
work=Time] From 1975 to 1986, he was the Chairman of theBrookings Institution . [cite web
url=http://www.brook.edu/lib/officers.htm
title=Guide to the Brookings Institution Archives: 1987
publisher=Brookings Institution ]References
External links
* [http://www.ndu.edu/library/ic4/L62-120.pdf United States Treasury Policies And Economic Stabilization] , a talk given at the
Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1962
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