Kenneth W. Dam
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Kenneth W. Dam served as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
The Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, in the United States government, advises and assists the Secretary of the Treasury in the supervision and direction of the Department of the Treasury and its activities, and succeeds the Secretary in his absence, sickness, or unavailability...

 (the second highest official in the United States Department of the Treasury
United States Department of the Treasury
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) from 2001 to 2003, where he specialized in international economic development. He is currently a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution
Brookings Institution
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 and a professor emeritus and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School
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Kenneth Dam graduated from Marysville High School, Marysville, Kansas in 1950, from the University of Kansas
University of Kansas
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 in 1954, and earned his J.D.
Juris Doctor
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 degree from the University of Chicago law school in 1957. He then served as a law clerk to United States Supreme Court justice Charles Whittaker in 1957 and 1958. He became an associate at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
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 until he joined the University of Chicago as a law professor in 1960, becoming provost
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 in 1980.

Dam held a number of government positions during various Republican
Republican Party (United States)
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 administrations while on leave from the University of Chicago:
  • Program Assistant Director for national security and international affairs at the Office of Management and Budget (1971-1973)
  • Executive Director of the White House Council on Economic Policy (1973)
  • Deputy Secretary of State (1982-1985)


After leaving the Reagan
Ronald Reagan
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 administration in 1985, Dam became vice president for law and external relations at IBM
IBM
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 until 1992. He served as president
President
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 and CEO
Chief executive officer
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 of the United Way of America in 1992, and helped lead an investigation of a highly publicized scandal in the leadership of that organization and reorganize its staff and governance. He then rejoined the University of Chicago law school faculty.

He has also been an arbitrator, most notably from 1996 to 2001 under the collective bargaining agreement between professional basketball
Basketball
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 players and the National Basketball Association
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. Dam has served on the board of a number of public policy institutions, including the Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations
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, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations
Chicago Council on Foreign Relations
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, and the Brookings Institution. He was co-chairman of the Aspen Strategy Group from 1991 to 2001 and was, during 1999 and 2000, chairman of the German-American Academic Council. From 1987 to 2001 he was a member of the board of Alcoa
Alcoa
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.

Publications

  • The Law-Growth Nexus: The Rule of Law and Economic Development, Brookings Institution Press, 2006 ISBN 0-8157-1720-2
  • The Rules of the Global Game: A New Look at US International Economic Playmaking, University Of Chicago Press, 2001 ISBN 0-226-13493-8
  • Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines, with George P. Shultz, University of Chicago Press, second edition 1998 ISBN 0-226-75599-1
  • The Rules of the Game: Reform and Evolution in the International Monetary System, University of Chicago Press, 1982 ISBN 0-226-13499-7
  • Oil Resources: Who Gets What How?, University of Chicago Press, 1978 ISBN 0-226-13498-9

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