Background
Pierson, John Herman Groesbeck was born on March 28, 1906 in New York City. Son of Charles Wheeler and Elizabeth Granville (Groesbeck) Pierson.
Pierson, John Herman Groesbeck was born on March 28, 1906 in New York City. Son of Charles Wheeler and Elizabeth Granville (Groesbeck) Pierson.
Bachelor, Yale College, 1927; Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Yale College, 1938.
Teacher, St. Bernard's School, New York City, 1928-1929;
special assistant to vice president, Consolidated Gas Company of New York, New York City, 1929-1933;
instructor economics, Yale College, New Haven, 1933-1938;
Sterling research fellow, Yale College, New Haven, 1938-1939;
associate director, Institute for Applied Social Analysis, New York City, 1939-1941;
assistant chief, then chief of Postwar Labor Problems division, Bureau Labor Statistics, Washington, 1941-1945;
adviser to acting commissioner, Bureau Labor Statistics, Washington, 1945-1946;
economics adviser, special assistant to assistant and Under Secretary of Labor, Washington, 1946-1948;
economics adviser to assistant to administrator, Economics Cooperation Administration, Washington, 1949-1950;
economics adviser, policy adviser, Asia/Far East Aid in Economics Cooperation Administration and Mutual SecurityAgy., 1950-1953;
founder, president, Voices to American, Inc., New York City, 1953-1954;
director research, planning division, United Nations Economics Common for Asia and the Far East, Bangkok, 1955-1959;
special consultant Bureau Social Affairs, United Nations, New York City, 1959-1961;
special adviser to Under-Secretary for Economics and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York City, 1961-1966;
secretary advising committee on application of science & technical to development, United Nations, New York City, 1964-1966;
free-lance writer, since 1966. Chairman United States Government interdepartmental commission on full employment and economics foreign policy, 1944-1946. United States delegate 3 international conferences to draft "Havana Charter", 1946-1948.
Adviser various other international meetings. Active National Environmental Leadership Council, 1990-1991.
Member American Economic Association, Athens Society of the Friends of the Trees, Century Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Gertrude Trumbull Robinson, 1930 (divorced 1942). Children: Elizabeth P. Friend, John Trumbull Robinson Pierson. Married Sherleigh Elizabeth Glad, June 16, 1948 (deceased 1991).
Married Harriet-Anne Duell, February 22, 1992.