Ray Allan Goldberg

Background

Goldberg, Ray Allan was born on October 19, 1926 in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. Son of Max and Anne Goldberg.

Education

AB, Harvard University, 1948; Master of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1952.

Career

Officer, director, Moorhead (Minnesota) Seed & Grain Company, 1952-1962; director, Experience, Inc., Minneapolis, 1963-1978; director, Arbor Acres Farm, Inc., New York City director, H.K. Webster Company member of faculty, Harvard University Graduate Business School, since 1955; Moffett professor agriculture and business, Harvard University Graduate Business School, 1970-1990; Moffett professor agriculture and business emeritus, since 1990; also director continuing education programs, participant seminars, Harvard University Graduate Business School. Board directors All-Flow, Inc., RDO Equiptment, Daymon Associations, Lion laboratories;honorary professor Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, England, 1996. Visiting professor.U. Minnesota Graduate School, summer 1960.

Advisory county Foods Multinat., Inc., 1972-1977. Member agricultural investment committee John Hancock Insurance Company, 1971-1995. Consultant in field, since 1955.

Adviser Instituto Centroamericano de Administracion de Empresa, Managua, Nicaragua, since 1973, Instituto Panamericano deAlta Direccion de Empressa, Mexico City, since 1973, United States Comptroller of Currency, since 1975, Food and Agriculture Policy Project, Center National Policy, since 1984. Member study team, subgroup chairman world food and nutrition study National Research Council, since 1975. Member committee technical factor contributing to nation's foreign trade positions National Academy Engineering, since 1976.

Chairman agribusiness advising committee on CaribbeanBasin USDA, since 1982. Member commission on industrial policy for developing countries Commision on Engineering and Technology Systems, National Research Council, since 1982. Member task force on agriculture Fowler-McCracken Commission, since 1984.

Advisory board The First MercantileCurrency Fund Inc., since 1985. International advisory board Atlantic Exchange Program, since 1987. Member Virgin Islands Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, since 1988.

Member United States Presidential Economics Delaware to Poland, November, 1989. Scientific advisorybd. Sepragen Corporation, since 1993, Institute Food Technologists, since 1999.

Chairman joint business scientific public policy consumer policy technical committee United States Food System and Seminar, since 1994. Member international board visitors Zamorano, since 1995. Member of advisory committee Foodfit.com., since 1999.

Achievements

• Ray Allan Goldberg has been listed as a noteworthy Agribusiness educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board Governors International Development Research Center, Government of Canada, since 1978. Trustee Roxbury Latin School, Boston, 1973-1976, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, since 1978, member commission on patents and technical transfer, since 1982, chairman gerontology committee, since 1991. Member of advisory commission to preparatory school New England Conservatory Music,1974-, associate trustee, since 1978.

Vice Chairman of the Board Spoleto Festival United States of America, 1993. Advisory member Polish Investment Fund, since 1994. Chairman advising committee Sonoma International Capital Associations, since 1994.

Member Royal Agricultural College England (honorary professor since 1996), Virgin Islands Lenin All-Union Academy Agricultural Sciences (foreign), American Agricultural Economics Association (editorial county 1974-1978, national agribusiness education commission since 1988), International Agribusiness Management Association (president 1990-1992, board directors since 1990, chairman Russian food management program sponsored research project since 1994, coordinator non-partisan educational, government, private, science, medical and consumer group for food, safety, nutrition and environmental since 1994), Agribusiness Institute Cambridge (Chairman of the Board, treasurer 1991-1993), American Marketing Association, American Dairy Science Association, Food Distribution Research Society, Harvard Club(Boston and New York City), Business Council for Sustainable Development (advisory group for sustainable paper cycle project since 1994).

Connections

Married Thelma R. Englander, May 20, 1956. Children: Marc E., Jennifer E., Jeffrey L.

Father:

Max Goldberg

Mother:

Anne Goldberg

Spouse:

Thelma R. Englander

child:

Jeffrey L. Goldberg

child:

Jennifer E. Goldberg

child:

Marc E. Goldberg