Franklin Anthony Lindsay

Background

Lindsay, Franklin Anthony was born on March 12, 1916 in Kenton, Ohio, United States. Son of Harry Wyatt and Ruth (Andrews) Lindsay.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Stanford University, 1938;postgraduate, Harvard University, 1946.

Career

With Columbia division United States Steel Corporation, 1938-1939. Executive assistant to Bernard Baruch, United States delegate United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, 1946. Consultant House of Representatives Select (Herter) Committee on Foreign Aid, 1947-1948, ECA, Paris.

Representative to executive committee Organization of European Economic Cooperation, 1948-1949. With Central Intelligence Agency, 1949-1953. With public affairs program Ford Foundation, 1953-1956.

Principal McKinsey & Company, Incorporated, New York York City, 1956-1961. Executive vice president, director Itek Corporation, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1961-1962, president, director, 1962-1975, chairman board, 1975-1981, chairman executive committee, 1981-1983. Chairman Engenics, Inc., Menlo Park, California, 1983-1985.

Trustee emeritus Committee Economic Development. Research Associate Institute Politics, Harvard University, 1967-1971. Consultant 2d Hoover Commission, 1954, The White House, 1955.

Member Rockefeller Special Studies Panel Economic Policy, 1956, Gaither Committee National Security Policy, 1957. Assistant staff director President's Committee World Economic Policy, 1958. Member President Elect's Task Force on Disarmament, 1960.

Director Committee for National Trade Policy, 1956-1971. Advisory council department economics Princeton University, 1961-1964. Member Wilson Center Advisory council Smithsonian Institution, 1980-1994.

Trustee Bennington College, 1963-1973. Chairman board trustees Education Development Center, 1967-1973. Member visiting committee department economics Harvard University, 1976-1980.

Member President's Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations, 1976-1979. Board directors National Bureau Economic Research, 1976-1993, member executive committee, since 1980, chairman 1983-1986. Member advisory council Gas Research Institute, 1977-1983.

Vice chairman energy and raw materials, business and industry advisory committee Organization of European Cooperation and Development, 1977-1982, chairman 1980, member advisory board Public Agenda Foundation, 1978-1984. Member National Research Council Commission Engineering Systems, 1978-1984, panel on balancing national interest National Academy of Sciences, 1985-1987. Board directors Resources for the Future, 1978-1986.

Associate Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1988-1996. Visiting scholar Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington, 1987-1988, 90. Adjunct professor International Management Institute, Kiev, Ukraine, 1993-1996.

Member standing policy group on Russia and Eurasia, The Atlantic Council of the United States, since 1996. Member steering committee National Security Program, Kennedy School Government, Harvard University, since 1994. Lieutenant colonel Army of the United States United States Army, 1944-1945, Europe.

Works

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• book

  • New Techniques for Management Decision Making

• Other Work

  • Author: New Techniques of Management Decision Making, 1958, Beacons in the Night: War and Revolution in Yugoslavia 1941-1945, 1993. Contributing author: Prepariong Tomorrow's Business Leaders Today, The Conscience of the City, Removing Obstacles to Economic Growth. Contributor articles on national and foreign policy to professional journals.

Membership

Visiting scholar Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington, 1987-1988, 90. Lieutenant colonel Army of the United States, 1940-1945. With guerrilla forces 1944-1945, Europe (Office of Strategic Services).

Chief United States Military Mission to Yugoslavia, 1945. Member National Planning Association (vice Chairman of Commission arms control 1959-1962), Council Foreign Rels., Institute Strategic Studies (London), Committee for Economics Development(trustee since 1967, vice chairman 1974-1988, member research and policy committee since 1968), Canada-American Committee, Hudson Institute (public member), Saturday Club (Boston), Century Club (New York), Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi. M C.

Connections

Married Margot Coffin, December 17, 1948. Children: Catherine, Alison (deceased), John Franklin.

Father:

Harry Wyatt Lindsay

Mother:

Ruth (Andrews) Lindsay

Spouse:

Margot Coffin

child:

Catherine Lindsay

child:

Alison Lindsay (deceased)

child:

John Franklin Lindsay