Ludwig Rudel

The author, a Holocaust refugee, came to the United States in 1938. He earned a BA in International Relations from City College of New York, an MA in International Policies from New York University and an MA in Economics from University of Michigan. He served in the US Army during the Korean conflict; and then in the US Foreign Service, retiring in 1980. He continued to perform consulting services for another 22 years, for the US Government, the World Bank, and various UN Development agencies. At the same time, he formed a small scale enterprise with some of his associates and built a 1,000 acre resort in upper Appalachia. He is the author of Foreign Aid: Will it ever reach its Sunset? a monograph published by the Foreign Policy Association of New York in 2005