Malcolm H. Wiener

Malcolm H. Wiener (born 3 July 1935) is an Aegean prehistorian, retired principal in an investment management firm, and philanthropist. He is a natural-born American citizen, born in Tsingtao, China. He is married to Carolyn Talbot Seely Wiener, with whom he has four children.

Wiener was awarded a Naval Reserve Officer's Training Course scholarship for study at Harvard College. He graduated magna cum laude with a summa thesis in economics and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. While at Harvard, he was president of the University Chess Club. Between his years at Harvard College (1953–1957) and Harvard Law School (1960–1963) he spent three years of sea duty as an Ensign/Lieutenant JG in the United States Navy (1957–1960).

Wiener was the founder and CEO of The Millburn Corporation, The Millburn Ridgefield Corporation, CommInVest (1977-1997) and ShareInVest (1982-1997). The Center for Social Policy of the Harvard Kennedy School, created at his recommendation to encompass programs in health, criminal justice, housing, education and inequality, is named in his honor. In 1982 he founded the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) and in 1984 the Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation. He served from 1995 to 2010 as a Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and from 1985 to 2016 as a Trustee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the last five years as Chair of the Board. At the American School he proposed and funded the Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science.

Wiener is the author of numerous works on Aegean prehistory and the eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age. Several works have focused on the chronology of the Bronze Age Mediterranean world. His publication (2014) on “The Interaction of Climate Change and Agency in the Collapse of Civilizations ca. 2300–2000 B.C.” has attracted notice for its contribution to the history of climate change episodes in world history.

Wiener is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he chaired and authored the report of a CFR Independent Task Force on the subject of non-lethal technologies in point and crowd control and other missions. He also endowed the CFR Annual Lecture on Science and Technology.

Wiener has received seven honorary doctorates: Litt.D., University of Sheffield, 1997; Ph.D., Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, 1998; D., University of Athens, 1998; Dr. of Humane Letters, University of Cincinnati, 2007; D.Sc., University College London, 2009; D. Archaeology, Dickinson College, 2013; D.Sc., University of Arizona, 2014.

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