Lauchlin Currie
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Lauchlin Currie on July 17, 1939
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Lauchlin Bernard Currie 8 October 1902 Nova Scotia, Canadian Confederation |
| Died | 23 December 1993 (aged 91) Bogota, Colombia |
| Nationality | Canadian/Colombian |
| Field | Economic adviser |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics |
| Influences | Allyn Abbott Young |
| Influenced | Franklin Roosevelt |
| Awards | Cruz de Boyacá |
Lauchlin Bernard Currie (October 8, 1902 – December 23, 1993) was a Canadian-born economist.
Currie served as White House economic adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II (1939–45). From 1949-53, he directed a major World Bank mission to Colombia and related studies. Information from the Venona project, a counter-intelligence program undertaken by agencies of the United State government, references him in nine partially decrypted cables sent by agents of the Soviet Union. He became a Colombian citizen after the United States refused to renew his passport in 1954 due to doubts of his loyalty to the United States engendered by testimony of former Communist agents and information in the Venona decrypts.
He was born to Lauchlin Bernard Currie, an operator of a fleet of merchant ships, and Alice Eisenhauer Currie, a schoolteacher. In 1906, at the age of four, Currie's father died and his family moved to nearby Bridgewater where most of his schooling was done. He later attended schools in Massachusetts and California where he had relatives. In 1922, after two years at Saint Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Currie moved to the United Kingdom to study at the London School of Economics under Edwin Cannan, Hugh Dalton, A. L. Bowley, and Harold Laski.
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