Harvard/International Seminar/1956

Harvard/International Seminar/1956
The funders for the seminar included the deep state Ford Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Fairfield Foundation, and the Asia Foundation; all four were used by the CIA as vehicles for covert financing of select projects and people.
Membership	•  Joseph van Bilsen •  Wattage Johanis Fernando •  Neville Theseus •  Ming-min Peng •  Sven Børge Jensen •  Michael McFarland Davis •  Peter John Kennedy •  William Ross •  John Rowe Townsend •  Pekka Kullervo Malinen •  Alain Marcel Clement •  Guy Hippolyte d'Arvisenet •  Jean Georges Paris •  Andre Constant Simonard •  Astrid Claes •  Joachim Heinrich Gehlhoff •  Herbert Pothorn •  Hiralal Bose •  Ajit Kumar Das •  Bangalore Kuppuswamy •  Narayan Dattaram Rajadhyaksha •  Herawati Diah •  Husain Ali Mahfuz •  Alasia Borghese •  Ernesto Ignazio Riccardo de Marchi •  Giovanni Merlini •  Ai Kume •  Mikiso Mizuki •  Eiichi Nagasue •  Kishiro Sakai •  Yong Hee Lee •  Emil Rudolf Meijer •  Aziz Beg •  A. Mannon Omar •  Imaduddin Ahmed Sheikh •  Fe Rodriguez Arcinas •  Ceferino Padua Padua •  Ramon Fernandez de Soigne •  Joaquin Mallo •  Eric Nettle •  Turhan Feyzioglu •  Vladimir Ibler •  James L. Houghteling Jr •  Kenneth Keniston •  John Owens

These are the participants from 1956 for the yearly International Seminar led by Henry Kissinger at Harvard University.. The fully paid six week stay had as one of its purposes to "establish better understanding among a select group of people who will be in top leadership roles in their countries in the years ahead". Approximately half are from the field of the humanities and half in politics and economics.

For next year's cadre, see Harvard/International Seminar/1957. For the previous year, see Harvard/International Seminar/1955. For an overview of the program itself, see Harvard/International Seminar.

Participants

• Joseph van Bilsen - Professor of social law at the College of Overseas Territories, Antwerp. Formerly deputy chief of staff of the Minister of Education. Has written extensively about Africa.
• Wattage Johanis Fernando - Assistant Commissioner of Local Government in Ceylon. Has written and produced a number of Sinhalese plays and is an authority on Sinhalese literature and culture.
• Neville Theseus Dharmapala Kanakaratne - Crown Counsel in the Department of the Attorney General, Ceylon.
• Ming-min Peng - Associate Professor of International Law, National Taiwan University.
• Sven Børge Jensen - Chairman of the Danish Social-Democratic Youth Organization. Chief Editor of Free Youth.
• Michael McFarland Davis - Principal at the Air Ministry, London. Formerly Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air.
• Peter John Kennedy - Assistant Lecturer in Physics, King's College, London University.
• William Ross UK Member of Parlicment.
• John Rowe Townsend - Editor of the Manchester Guardian Weekly, Art Editor of the Manchester Guardian.
• Pekka Kullervo Malinen - Secretary-General of the Finnish People's Party.
• Alain Marcel Clement - Correspondent of Le Monde (Paris) in Germany.
• Guy Hippolyte d'Arvisenet - Head of the Research and Documentation Department, Common Assembly, European Community for Coal and Steel. Formerly Secretary of the French delegation to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe.
• Jean Georges Paris - On the staff of the Bulletin Analytique, at the National Scientific Research Center, Sorbonne. Has published numerous poems, essays, translations, and is at present working on a detailed study on the modern novel.
• Andre Constant Simonard - Professor at the Higher School of Commercial Science, University of Paris. Legal Consultant of the Ministry of the Merchant Navy. Formerly first counsellor to the Minister for fublic Works and Transport; Cabinet Director to the Secretary of State in the Government of M. Mendes-France.
• Astrid Claes - Writer and poetess. Has published numerous translations, book reviews, poems and short stories.
• Joachim Heinrich Gehlhoff - Economic editor with the Deutsche Zeitung.
• Herbert Pothorn - Free lance artist and writer. Has written and illustrated several stories for television.
• Hiralal Bose - Youth Organizer, All India Congress Committee, New Delhi. Organization of young people throughout India for future responsibilities, through camps, seminars, study classes, debates, etc.
• Ajit Kumar Das - Correspondent of United Press for Eastern India, Correspondent for the Mainichi Newspapers, Japan. Professor of Economics at City College, Calcutta University.
• Bangalore Kuppuswamy - Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Mysore, India
• Narayan Dattaram Rajadhyaksha - Lecturer in Logic and Philosqphy, Jai Hind College, Bombay. Also actively associated with adult education work.
• Mrs. Herawati Diah -Editor of newspaper Indonesian Observer, Editor of Madjalah Merdeka illustrated weekly, and editor of Keluarga, a monthly magazine.
• Husain Ali Mahfuz - An authority on the Shitite sect of Islam. Author of The Poets of the Shitite center of Kadhimain.
• Alasia Borghese - Sculptress. Regular contributor to the newspaper Giornale d'Italia.
• Ernesto Ignazio Riccardo de Marchi - Co-editor of Occidente. Research Assistant to the chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Turin.
• Giovanni Merlini - Assistant to the President of the Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, a publishing house. Publishing Director of the Dizionario Enciclopedico UTET; National Vice-Secretary for the European Federalist Movement.
• Mrs. Ai Kume - Attorney at law; Professor of criminal law at Meiji University.
• Mikiso Mizuki - Supervisor of the Biometrics Section, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission.
• Eiichi Nagasue General Secretary of the Japon Social Democratic Party of the Kioto Area. Lecturer at Doshisha University; President of the Nagasue Institute of Public Opinion Research; Member of the Kioto Prefectural Assembly.
• Kishiro Sakai - Foreign News Editor, Tokyo Bureau of the Hokkaido Shinbun.
• Yong Hee Lee -South Korea. Associate Professor, Seoul National University; Director of the Department of International Relations.
• Emil Rudolf Meijer -In charge of the Educational Department of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
• Aziz Beg Editor of the Star, a Pakistan weekly, Managing Director of Modern Papers, Ltd.
• A. Mannon Omar Chairman, the Oriental and Religious Publishing Corporation, Ltd. Has supervised translations of the Koran into English, German and Dutch, and has codified "Musnad Ahmad-bin-Harbal
• Imaduddin Ahmed Sheikh - Adviser to the Constituent Assembly. Editor of Opinion, a news-weekly. Editor of Maghribi Pakistan, a Urdu daily.
• Mrs. Fe Rodriguez Arcinas - Instructor in Sociology, University of the Philippines.
• Ceferino Padua Padua - Chief Legal Counsel, Social Welfare Administration. Professor of Law and Liberal Arts, Francisco College.
• Ramon Fernandez de Soigne - Student in the Diplomatic School, Madrid.
• Joaquin Mallo -Studying to become a commercial adviser to the Government.
• Eric Nettle - Chief London correspondent of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
• Turhan Feyzioglu - Professor of AdministrativP Law, University of Ankara.
• Vladimir Ibler - Lecturer for International Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb
• James L. Houghteling Jr - Assistant Professor of Economics, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. Formerly with ECA (Marshall Plan), Washington and Paris, 1948-1952.
• Kenneth Keniston - Graduate of Harvard University, 1951; Rhodes Scholar, Oxford, England, 1951-53; Society of Fellows, Harvard University.
• John Owens - Instructor in Political Science, Wesleyan University.

 

Known member

1 of the 45 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Kenneth Keniston	US academic who spoke on "youth" at the 1969 Bilderberg

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