Kenneth W. W. Department of Administration and Management

Background

Department of Administration and Management, Kenneth was born on August 10, 1932 in Marysville, Kansas, United States. Son of Oliver W. and Ida L. Dam.

Education

Kenneth Dam graduated from Marysville High School, Marysville, Kansas in 1950, from the University of Kansas in 1954, and earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago law school in 1957.

Career

He is currently a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution and a professor emeritus and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He then served as a law clerk to United States Supreme Court justice Charles Whittaker in 1957 and 1958. Dam held a number of government positions during various Republican administrations while on leave from the University of Chicago:

Program Assistant Director for national security and international affairs at the Office of Management and Budget (1971–1973)

Executive Director of the White House Council on Economic Policy (1973)

Deputy Secretary of State (1982–1985)

After leaving the Reagan administration in 1985, Dam became vice president for law and external relations at International Business Machines Corporation until 1992.

He served as president and Chief Executive Officer of the United Way of America in 1992, and helped lead an investigation of a highly publicized scandal in the leadership of that organization and reorganize its staff and governance.

He then rejoined the University of Chicago law school faculty. He has also been an arbitrator, most notably from 1996 to 2001 under the collective bargaining agreement between professional basketball players and the National Basketball Association.

Dam has served on the board of a number of public policy institutions, including the Council on Foreign Relations, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and the Brookings Institution. He was co-chairman of the Aspen Strategy Group from 1991 to 2001 and was, during 1999 and 2000, chairman of the German-American Academic Council.

Achievements

• Kenneth W. Dam has been listed as a reputable Lawyer, law educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Law-Growth Nexus: The Rule of Law And Economic Development

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  • Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines

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  • Law-Growth Nexus Rule of Law And Economic Development by Dam, Kenneth W. Brookings Institution Press,2006 Hardcover

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  • Rules of the Game: Reform and Evolution in the International Monetary System

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  • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: Law and International Economic Organization

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  • The Portable Stanford: Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines
  • By George P. Shultz - Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines: 2nd (second) Edition
  • The Law-Growth Nexus: The Rule of Law And Economic Development by Dam, Kenneth W. (2006) Hardcover
  • Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines ( the Portable Stanford Series )
  • Rules of the Game: Reform and Evolution in the International Monetary System by Kenneth W. Dam (1982-04-03)
  • The Rules of the Game: Reform and Evolution in the International Monetary System (Midway Reprint)
  • Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines by Shultz George P. Dam Kenneth W. (1998-06-20) Paperback

Membership

Board directors American Council on Germany, 1986-1995, American-China Society, 1989-1999, Atlantic Council, 1985-1992, 2004^, Council on Foreign Relations, 1992-2001, Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 1992-2001. Trustee Brookings Institute, 1989-2001, 03-09, honorary trustee, since 2009. Co-chairman Aspen Strategy Group, 1991-2001.

Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Academy Diplomacy, American Law Institute, National Academy (science, technical and law panel, 2003-2008), Shadow Finance Regulatory Committee, Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (trustee, 2004-2008), Finance Services Volunteer Corps (board directors since 2005), Committee Economic Development (trustee since 2006, director behavioural interventions 2007-2009), Metropolitan Club (Washington), Quadrangle Club.

Connections

Married Marcia Wachs, June 9, 1962. Children: Eliot, Charlotte.

Father:

Oliver W. Dam

Mother:

Ida L. (Hueppelsheuser) Dam

Spouse:

Marcia Wachs

child:

Eliot Dam

child:

Charlotte Dam