Background
Sherwood, Sidney was born on May 10, 1901 in Baltimore. Son of Sidney and Mary A. (Beattie) Sherwood.
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Sidney Sherwood
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Graduate, Storm King School, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, 1919. Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University, 1923.
Career
With Bankers Trust Company. New York City and Phelps Dodge Corporation, Bisbee, Arizona, 1923-1932, Farm Credit Administration, United States Treasury Department, 1933-1935. Supervisor alcohol tax unit, also co-ordinator Treasury enforcement agys., New England, 1933-1940.
Assistant secretary advisory commission Council of National Defense. Assistant liaison officer Office for Emergency Management, Executive Office of President. Director National Policy Committee.
Executive officer Division of Industry Operations, War Production Board. Combined Production and Resources Board and consultant on foreign programs Office of War Mobilization, White House. Special assistant to administrator Foreign Economics Administration, 1940-1945.
Secretary Export-Import Bank of Washington and chief of economics survey missions to, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Israel, 1945-1959. Economics attache American embassy, New Delhi, India, representing Export-Import Bank, and loan adviser to the United States Agency for International Development Mission in India, 1959-1964. American investment adviser Indian Investment Centre, and United States adviser The Central Bank of India, Ltd., consultant to Government of Ceylon, consultant to United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1964-1969.
Senior financial adviser United Nations Development Program, 1969-1972. Board Governors Middle East Institute.
Membership
Member Washington Institute Foreign Affairs, American Society for International Development, Asia Society. Club: Cosmos (Washington).
Connections
Married Olita Schlichten, May 28, 1927.
