Kenneth W. Dam
Kenneth W. Dam ( born August 10, 1932 in Marysville, Kansas) is an American lawyer and former politician who held a number of senior government positions in his career.
Kenneth Dam made the 1950 high school graduation in his hometown of Marysville. Thereafter he attended until 1954, the first University of Kansas, before he moved to the University of Chicago and graduated from the Law School there in 1957 his Juris Doctor. He then until 1958 as a legal assistant ( Law Clerk ) at Charles Evans Whittaker, one also coming from Kansas Supreme Federal Court, busy. As a result, he was first a lawyer in the New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, until he got a job as a law professor at the University of Chicago in 1960. In 1980 he became Provost of the University.
During this time he also took his first office in the civil service: from 1971 to 1973 Dam served as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, with responsibility for national security and international affairs. He has also held in 1973 for a short time the post of managing director at the National Economic Council.
On September 23, 1982, appointed Deputy Secretary of the United States and thus deputy to Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Kenneth Dam of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. He held that post until June 15, 1985 then followed him John C. Whitehead. After that, he was vice president for legal questions at IBM and remained so until 1992. This year he took over the post of president and CEO of United Way of America. This charity was in the headlines by a scandal in the leadership; Dam commenced an investigation of the affair and was instrumental in the restructuring of the non-profit organization. He then returned to the University of Chicago.
Dam held in consequence more offices; he was from 1991 to 2001 Deputy Chairman of the Aspen Strategy Group, and from 1999 to 2000 chairman of the German - American Academic Council. He was also a 1987 to 2001 the board of the aluminum producer Alcoa. Great deal of attention was also his work as a mediator in the salary negotiations between the National Basketball Association and its players from 1996 to 2001. Moreover, he was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
After the inauguration of President George W. Bush in 2001 Dam came back into government services. He held office until 2003 as deputy finance minister and managed during this period from 31 December 2002 to 3 February 2003, the Ministry as an interim solution, after Paul O'Neill was dismissed as Minister and John W. Snow initial delay as its successor has been qualified. Since leaving the Government Dam focused on his legal activity; He is currently a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Law School.