Background
Wolff, Derish Michael was born on May 14, 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Nathan and Ruth Mae (Derish) Wolff.
Wolff, Derish Michael was born on May 14, 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Nathan and Ruth Mae (Derish) Wolff.
Bachelor, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1957. Master of Business Administration, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959.
Financial analyst Sigmund Werner, Inc., Belleville, New Jersey, 1959-1961. Development economist Louis Berger, Inc., East Orange, 1961-1965, chief economist, 1965-1967, vice president, 1968-1975, executive vice president, 1976-1982, president, Chief Executive Officer, 1982—2002, chairman, since 2002. Director Berger Group Holdings, CHELBI, Ammann & Whitney, ABAM, Klohn-Crippen, Berger Devine Yaeger, RBA Group, guest lecturer United Nations Foreign Service District, EA Engineering, Science & Technology, United Nations Foreign Service Institute, Newark Institute of Technology, University Nevada, Georgia Institute of Technology, The New School, Harvard University, Rutgers University, University Denver, Tsinghua University.
Visiting lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 2001. Member industry advisory panel Department of State, 2001-2005. Member Bretton Woods Committee, since 1987.
Member advisory committee New Jersey Institute of Technology, since 1995, board overseers since 2006. Class chairman University Pennsylvania Annual Giving, 1975-1982. Member advisory board Huntsman Program University Pennsylvania, since 1997.
United States presidential trade delegate to Japan, 1986. Industrial sector advisory committee Department of Commerce, 1988-1992. Advisory committee United States Trade and Development Program, 1989-1992.
Member American Consultant Engineers Council (chair international engineering committee 1983-1985, vice chair 1986-1993), International Engineering and Construction Industries Council (delegate 1986, 87, chairman 1988-1990), Building Futures Council (co-chairman 1994-2006), Center Strategic and International Studies (steering group/General Agreement of Tariff and Trades negotiations 1989), Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: Harvard, Pennsylvania.
Married Maureen Robinson. Children: Jeffrey Scott, Hayley Beth Kissel.