Andrew Kamarck

Who is Andrew Kamarck?

Andrew M. Kamarck was an American economist, Director of the Economic Development Institute at the World Bank and Regents Professor at University of California, Los Angeles.

In 1936, Kamarck got his BA summa cum laude at Harvard University. In 1951, he got his Ph.D at Harvard. He worked for the Federal Reserve Board and, during World War II, he "was posted to the Allied Control Commission for Italy, where he supervised the Banca d'Italia". In 1944, he "was assigned as Chief of the U.S. Financial Intelligence in Germany".

He then continued to work for the United States Secretary of the Treasury in 1946, contributing to the "policy guidelines for the Marshall Plan." He later became World Bank Economic Adviser, Professor at University of California, Los Angeles "and Research Associate at the Harvard Center of International Affairs.