Barend de Vries

Barend de Vries (1925–2010) was Chief Economist at the World Bank.

Barend was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands and was brought up as a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1943, whilst a student at the University of Utrecht he was arrested and sent to a concentration camp, as the occupying Nazis wished to make an example of some students following the killing of a Dutch Nazi general. However after the war he was able to finish his degree and proceed to post graduate education at the University of Chicago finally gaining a PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also participated in the Cowles Commission whilst at Chicago.[1]

He was married to Margaret Garritsen de Vries.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Springuel, Rene. "Obituary for Barend Arie deVries". 1818 Society. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "Margaret Garritsen deVries, 87; IMF economist and historian". The Washington Post. 2010-01-01. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
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