John J. Deutsch
 John J. Deutsch    (economist) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 26 February 1911 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 March 1976 (Age 65) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Queen's University | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Canadian economist who in secret negotiated 1947 trade agreement with the United States, a sweeping liberalization of Canada-U.S. trade (but ultimately rejected). Attended Bilderberg/1965 when president of the Economic Council of Canada, and Bilderberg/1975 at the end of his career.
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Not to be confused with John M. Deutch, the CIA Director confronted by Mike Ruppert.
John James Deutsch was a Canadian economist.
Education
Deutsch was a native of Quinton, Saskatchewan. Deutsch, the eldest of 17 children in a Prairie farm family, worked his way through college. A brilliant student, he graduated from Regina's Campion College and was a member of its teaching staff from 1930 to 1933 while doing extramural work at the University of Saskatchewan. He won a scholarship to Queen's University and graduated in 1934 with a degree in commerce and economics.[1]
Career
He continued postgraduate work in economics until, in 1936 at age 25, he became a research assistant at the newly formed Bank of Canada. A year later he was lent to the Rowell-Sirois Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations and soon became the Commission's research director. After the Commission reported in 1940, Deutsch went back to Queen's to teach economics, but soon was appointed secretary of the newly formed Canada-United States economic committee. He was later wartime assistant to the Deputy Minister of External Affairs and helped establish Canada's National Selective Service program.[1]
When the war ended John Deutsch became an editorial writer for the Winnipeg Free Press but within a year was back in the federal field as Secretary to a Royal Commission charged with classifying senior positions in the civil service.[1]
In 1947 Prime Minister MacKenzie King picked Deutsch to negotiate, in secret, a trade agreement with the United States. Deutsch apparently succeeded in negotiating a sweeping liberalization of Canada-U.S. trade, only to have King reject it.[1]
In 1953 he became Director of the International Economic Relations division of the Finance Department, a role that gave him the rank of Assistant Deputy Minister. Later the same year he became Secretary of the Treasury Board in Ottawa.[1]
In December 1955, Deutsch accepted a professorship in the Economics Department at the University of British Columbia. He was soon named head of the department, and worked in that post until 1959 when he returned to Queen's as Vice-Principal of Administration. Four years later he returned to Ottawa as Chairman of the newly created Economic Council of Canada, an advisory body that took on the role of prodding successive governments into new directions of economic policy. He stayed with the Council until the fall of 1967 when he became principal-elect of Queen's, succeeding Dr. J.A. Corry as principal in 1968.[1]
Deutsch retired from the Principalship in 1974, but continued on as a professor of Economics, a post he held until his death in 1976.[1]
Queen's named the John Deutsch University Centre (JDUC), the student union building, and the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, after him.[2]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1965 | 2 April 1965 | 4 April 1965 | Italy Villa d'Este | The 14th Bilderberg meeting, held in Italy |
| Bilderberg/1975 | 25 April 1975 | 27 April 1975 | Turkey Golden Dolphin Hotel Cesme | The 24th Bilderberg Meeting, 98 guests |
