Hollis Chenery

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Hollis B. Chenery, vice president for development policy for the World Bank, specialized in economic developed for over twenty-five years, dividing his time between teaching, research, and government assignments. As a professor of economics as Stanford University from 1952 to 1961, he founded and was co-director of the Research Center in Economic Growth. From 1961 to 1965, Chenery was assistant administrator for program of the U.S. Agency for International Development. From 1965 to 1970, when he joined the World Bank, he was at Harvard University as professor of economics and director of the project for quantitative research in economic development in the Center for International Affairs. He has also served as an adviser on economic development to the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and the governments of Pakistan, Japan, Chile, Israel, and Korea. Chenery is the co-author of five books and has written numerous articles on economic development and development planning.