Nicholas Eberstadt

Nicholas Eberstadt
Born (1955-12-20) December 20, 1955
New York City, U.S.
Academic background
School or tradition Demographics, Economics
Academic work
Main interests Russia and other former Soviet republics; poverty; North and South Korea; Global health, infant mortality, and HIV/AIDS; foreign aid; economic development policy

Nicholas Eberstadt (born 1955) is an American political economist. He holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a politically conservative think tank. He is also a Senior Adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), a member of the visiting committee at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a member of the Global Leadership Council at the World Economic Forum. He is the author of many books.

Early life and education

Eberstadt was born on December 20, 1955 in New York City.[1][2] His father, Frederick Eberstadt, was an author and photographer.[2] His mother, Isabel Nash, was a novelist.[2] His paternal grandfather, Ferdinand Eberstadt, was an investment banker and co-founder of the Central Intelligence Agency; his maternal grandfather, Ogden Nash, was a poet. His sister, Fernanda Eberstadt, is a novelist.

Eberstadt graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1972.[2] He then earned his A.B. magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard College in 1976, and his M.Sc. in Social Planning for Developing Countries from the London School of Economics in 1978.[2][3] He completed his M.P.A. at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 1979, and his Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government at Harvard University in 1995.[3]

Career

Eberstadt was a teaching fellow at Harvard University from 1976 to 1979, instructing courses in population and natural resources, agricultural economics, social science and social policy, and problems of policy making in less developed countries. He was a visiting research fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation from 1979 to 1980, meanwhile serving as an associate of Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 1980 to 2002, Eberstadt was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Eberstadt joined his current institution, the American Enterprise Institute, as a visiting fellow in 1985. He assumed the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy and became a resident fellow in 1999.[3]

From 1988 to 1990, Eberstadt served as an adviser to the Catholic University Institute on Health and Development. In 1999 he was a visiting fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle. Eberstadt was awarded the Bosch Fellowship in Public Policy in 2008, from the American Academy in Berlin.[3]

Eberstadt has written many books and articles on political and economic issues, including demographics and the political situation of North Korea.[4][5][6] He has consulted for governmental and international organizations, the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. State Department, USAID, and World Bank, and has often been invited to offer expert testimony before Congress.[7]

Eberstadt served on the President's Commission on Bioethics (2006–2009) and the Presidential HELP Commission (2005–2008).[3] From 2003 to present, he has been a member of The Public Interest's Publication Committee, the Overseers‘ Committee to Visit the Harvard School of Public Health, the National Center for Health Statistics Board of Scientific Counselors, and the U.S.–China AIDS Foundation's Advisory Board. He is a founding member of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, and the Commissioner of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Global Aging Initiative.

Personal life

Eberstadt married Mary Tedeschi, now a scholar at the Hoover Institution, in 1987.[2] They have four children and reside in Washington, DC.

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ "Nicholas Eberstadt". Contemporary Authors: Biography in Context. Detroit: Gale. 2008. Retrieved October 27, 2016.  – via General OneFile (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "MARY C. TEDESCHI PLANNING TO MARRY NICHOLAS NASH EBERSTADT IN OCTOBER". The New York Times. August 23, 1987. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Nicholas Eberstadt". American Enterprise Institute. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ Klein, Kent (2009-04-02). "Experts Explain Why North Korea Wants To Conduct Long-Range Missile Test". Voice Of America News. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  5. ↑ Eberstadt, Nicholas (2009-04-06). "Kim's Crumbling Dynasty". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  6. ↑ Lawson, Dominic (2009-03-29). "Enough, population doom merchants". London: The Times. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  7. ↑ "Eberstadt Biography". Global Agricultural Development Initiative. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
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