Edward Mason

Edward Mason (economist)
Born	February 22, 1899 Iowa, USA
Died	February 29, 1992 (Age 93) California, US
Nationality	US
Alma mater	University of Kansas, Harvard University, Lincoln College (Oxford)
Member of	Office of Strategic Services, Rhodes Scholar/1919
Spooky US economist specializing in Industrial Organization. Organized WW2 OSS research and analysis branch. Dean of Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Attended the 1956, 1963 and 1966 Bilderberg.  American Economic Association/President In office 1962 Preceded by Edward Mason Succeeded by Edward Mason  Dean of Kennedy School of Government In office 1947 - 1958 Employer Kennedy School of Government

Professor Edward Sagendorph Mason was a US economist who worked at Harvard for 63 years, from the early 1920s until 1970, specializing in Industrial Organization.

Career

Mason first arrived at Harvard in 1919, but moved on to three years at Oxford after only one year. He returned to Harvard in 1923. With time out during the Second World War, he remained at Harvard for the next sixty-three years.

In 1941 Mason and his colleague and old friend, William Langer, went to Washington to help organize the research and analysis branch of what originally was the Office of the Coordinator of Information, later the Office of Strategic Services. The economic division that he created had an enormous range of activity, focusing primarily on the German and Japanese economic ability to make war and on the American capacity to affect this ability through blockade, bombing and sabotage. to this office Mason attracted some of the ablest economists of that generation.

In 1946 he was one of the authors of the speech of Secretary of State James Byrnes in which the Secretary announced the return of responsibility for the German economy to the Germans.

From 1947 to 1958, he was Dean of what is now the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

In 1954 Ed Mason directed an eight person team that drew up a development plan for Pakistan, and in 1958 he conducted a similar exercise for Iran. The Pakistan involvement led to the creation the Mason Fellows program, a mid-career program for government officials from developing countries, and the Harvard Institute for International Development.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1956	11 May 1956	13 May 1956	Denmark Fredensborg	The 4th Bilderberg meeting, with 147 guests, in contrast to the generally smaller meetings of the 1950s. Has two Bilderberg meetings in the years before and after
Bilderberg/1963	29 March 1963	31 March 1963	France Cannes Hotel Martinez	The 12th Bilderberg meeting and the second one in France.
Bilderberg/1966	25 March 1966	27 March 1966	Germany Wiesbaden Hotel Nassauer Hof	Top of the agenda of the 15th Bilderberg in Wiesbaden, Germany, was the restructuring of NATO. Since this discussion was held, all permanent holders of the position of NATO Secretary General have attended at least one Bilderberg conference prior to their appointment.

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