Robert Vincent Roosa (Rhodes 1939)
International Finance. Gov. Official. Author. Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford. Trilateral Commission[6]. Bilderberg. Cosmos Club.[3]
Chairman and trustee of The Brookings Institution.[3] Member of the Pilgrims Society of the United States.
Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange’s international capital markets advisory committee.[3]
Member of the boards, Council on Foreign Relations, Anaconda, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Texaco and Prudential Insurance.[3]
He served at various times as a director of American Express Bank Ltd. and the National Bureau of Economic Research, a trustee of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a member of the Advisory Committee of the International Finance Corporation.[2]
Trustee or Director of the Carnegie Hall Corporation, the Economic Club of New York, then and the United Nations Association.[2]
1983 - Published, Economic Instability and Flexible Echange Rates: A Seminar Organized by the Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, 12 April 1982, Singapore. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
1967 - Published, The Balance of Payments: Free Versus Fixed Exchange Rates, American Exterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
1967 to 1982 - Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation. [2]
1966 to 1981 - Director of the Council on Foreign Relations.[2]
1965 - Published, Monetary reform for the world economy. Published for the CFR by Harper & Row.
1965 to 1993 - Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.[2]
For several decades he advocated better relations with both the Soviet Union and China, including giving the mainland Chinese membership in the United Nations.[2]
1964 - Published, The Management of the National Debt. (Industrial College of the Armed Forces).
1962 - Senator Paul H. Douglas described Mr. Roosa as “probably the foremost authority on the technical operation of the money market in Government securities.” ‘Adjust Imbalances’.[2]
1961 - Stating his philosophy of the relationship between government and the economy, Mr. Roosa said : “The Government’s role is to help assure the functioning of the checks and balances in a market economy; it helps to adjust imbalances by taking action at the margins but it never dictates the composition of the whole nor does it actually operate many of the parts.”
1961 to 1964 - Under U.S. Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs to Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillion (Groton School with Nelson, Laurence and John Rockefeller. Rockefeller Foundation.VP CFR) by President John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.[2] …
During his career at the Treasury, Mr. Roosa was responsible for the management of the country’s debt and for handling such problems as curbing the outflow of gold and dollars from the United States, as well as setting the interest rates for the offerings of Government securities.[2] …
… Arthur Schlesinger, in “A Thousand Days,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Kennedy administration, tells how Mr. Roosa came to join the administration in its early days. He wrote that prominent business executives and economists, including Paul Samuelso [Phi Beta Kappa/Fellow of Royal Society and Royal Economic Society], to whom Kennedy was talking about senior Treasury appointments, kept putting forth the name Robert V. Roosa, whom Schlesinger called “a brilliant young economist from the New York Federal Reserve Bank.” Kennedy, then president-elect, had never heard of Mr. Roosa. With some exasperation, he remarked to Samuelson that since the top job at Treasury was still vacant and Mr. Roosa’s name kept cropping up, “why don’t we give him the top job?”. Samuelson replied, “You can’t do that. He is too young.” Schlesinger wrote that Kennedy was vastly entertained by the reply, as Mr. Roosa was only a year younger than the incoming president.
1946, Joined, 1956 to 1960 - Vice President for Research Department at Federal Reserve Bank of New York.[2]
WW2 - joined the Army as a private, served as an intelligence specialist in Europe.**[2] Served in London as assistant to Charles P. Kindleberger (Marshall Plan. CFR. Student of Alfred Eckhard Zimmern of Oxford Unv, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Round Table and insider to Carroll Quigley ) in the Enemy Objectives Unit, identifying potentially valuable enemy targets.
1939 to 1943 - Taught Economics at Michigan, Harvard and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1939, but did not attend due to WW2 - Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford.[1]
1939 - Graduated, University of Michigan. Phi Beta Kappa[2]
Died 23 Dec 1993, from Not Known. Age 75.
Note: His wife of 47 years, the former Ruth Grace Amende, died in October. Survivors include two daughters, Meredith Ann Inderfurth of Arlington and Alison Ruth Cluff of Stevensville, Mont., and five grandchildren.[3]
[3] - ROBERT ROOSA DIES AT 75 By Richard Pearson (December 25, 1993)
[5] - FYI - Wiki - Robert Vincent Roosa (Rhodes 1939)
[6] - CARTER’S BRAIN TRUSTS (20 Dec 1976) - ref Trialteral Commission
[8] - Prabook - Robert Vincent Roosa (Rhodes 1939)
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