Diplomat, Educator. He graduated from Princeton in 1938 and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. During World War II he was an economic warfare specialist for the federal government. After the war he joined the Economic Cooperation Administration as Director of the China Aid Program, developed and managed US aid to both Italy and eight East Asian nations, and played a key role in the execution of the Marshall Plan. In the 1950s Cleveland was Executive Editor of The Reporter magazine and then Dean of Syracuse University's Maxwell Graduate School. During the Kennedy administration he was Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, and in 1965 President Johnson appointed him Ambassador to NATO, where he served until 1969. From 1969 to 1974 he was President of the University of Hawaii. From 1974 to 1980 he was Director of International Affairs Programs for The Aspen Institute, a position he left to become Founding Dean of the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. In his later years Cleveland served as President of the World Academy of Art and Science and Chairman of the Board of the Volunteers in Technical Assistance program. He was the author of 12 books on leadership and public policy and hundreds of magazine articles, newspaper columns and academic papers, and was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Diplomat, Educator. He graduated from Princeton in 1938 and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. During World War II he was an economic warfare specialist for the federal government. After the war he joined the Economic Cooperation Administration as Director of the China Aid Program, developed and managed US aid to both Italy and eight East Asian nations, and played a key role in the execution of the Marshall Plan. In the 1950s Cleveland was Executive Editor of The Reporter magazine and then Dean of Syracuse University's Maxwell Graduate School. During the Kennedy administration he was Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, and in 1965 President Johnson appointed him Ambassador to NATO, where he served until 1969. From 1969 to 1974 he was President of the University of Hawaii. From 1974 to 1980 he was Director of International Affairs Programs for The Aspen Institute, a position he left to become Founding Dean of the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. In his later years Cleveland served as President of the World Academy of Art and Science and Chairman of the Board of the Volunteers in Technical Assistance program. He was the author of 12 books on leadership and public policy and hundreds of magazine articles, newspaper columns and academic papers, and was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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