Penelope Hartland-Thunberg

HARTLAND-THUNBERG, PENELOPE

PENELOPE HARTLAND-THUNBERG, an expert on international trade and finance and one-time member of the United State's Tariff Commission (1965-1969), died October 16, 2004 at the age of 86. Born in Everett, MA, she grew up in Cranston, RI. She graduated from Pembroke College, 1940, and received her Ph.D degree from Radcliffe College, 1946. She taught at Wells, Mount Holyoke and Brown, before moving to Washington where she served as sole international economist on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, 1951-53, in several high level positions at the CIA (1954-1966 and again 1970-78), and from 1979 to her retirement as Director of Economic Research at the Georgetown University Center for Economic and Strategic Studies, specializing in the economy of East Asia, and as the William M. School Fellow in International Business at Georgetown. Her publications include "China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the World Trading System" (1990), "Banks, Petrodollars, and Sovereign Debtors" (1986), and ""Botswana: an African Growth Economy (1978). Dr. Hartland-Thunberg received the Federal Women's Award in 1965 and an Honorary Degree from Brown University in 1966. The last recognized both her intellectual distinction and her long service to Brown in various capacities including as a Trustee of its Corporation. Donations in her memory should be made either to Brown or to the Washington Opera Company. A memorial gathering will take place April 23, from 4 to 6 p.m., at the 600 Restaurant at the Watergate, 600 New Hampshire Ave. N.W.