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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - Wikipedia

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2014 in honor of a $350 million donation, the largest in Harvard's history at the time, from the Morningside Foundation, run by Harvard School of Public en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_T…

Health alumnus Gerald Chan, SM '75, SD '79, and Ronnie Chan, the sons of T.H. Chan.

Chan Tseng-hsi (Chinese: 陳曾熙; pinyin: Chén Zēngxī; 1923 – March 8, 1986) was a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the Hong Kong-based real estate company Hang Lung Group.

Its subsidiary Hang

Lung Properties is one of the largest property developers in Hong Kong, and also invests in the Mainland China market.

In 1988, it gained control of Parry Corporation in Australia.

On 1 January 1991, Ronnie Chan took over as the group's chairman.

Ronnie succeeded the chairman position in the companies from his uncle. He is also the vice-president of the Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong, a Co-Chairman of the Asia Society and Chairman of its Hong Kong Center, and an advisor to the China Development Research

Foundation of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.

He was a director of Enron Corporation and a member of its audit committee when it filed for bankruptcy as a result of fraud. In November 2009, he attended the Horasis Global China Business Meeting in Lisbon,

where his criticisms of American financial policy garnered widespread attention.

The Asia Society was founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller III.

On May 21, 2013, Asia Society announced that World Economic Forum Vice Chair Josette Sheeran, a former Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), would on June 10, 2013 become the seventh president and CEO of the institution.

Sheeran was also the United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti.

She was the eleventh Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in November 2006.

WFP was established in 1961 after the 1960 Food and

Agriculture Organization (FAO) Conference, when George McGovern, director of the US Food for Peace Programmes, proposed establishing a multilateral food aid programme. WFP launched its first programmes in 1963 by the FAO and the United Nations General Assembly on a three-year

experimental basis, supporting the Nubian population at Wadi Halfa in Sudan.

Addeke Hendrik Boerma (3 April 1912 – 8 March 1992) was a Dutch civil servant who served as the first Executive Director of the World Food Programme from 1962–1967 and as the Director General of the

Food and Agriculture Organization from 1967 until December 1975.

In 1938, Boerma went to work for the National Agency for Wartime Food Supply on preparations for food supply in the Netherlands in wartime. In October 1944, he went to the already liberated south of the Netherlands

to prepare the food supply and the sending of relief supplies.
For his services during and after the war, Boerma was made a Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion and a Commander in the Order of Leopold.

The Order of the Netherlands Lion, also known as the Order of the

Lion of the Netherlands (Dutch: De Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw, French: L'Ordre du Lion Néerlandais) is a Dutch order of chivalry founded by King William I of the Netherlands on 29 September 1815.

The Order of Leopold (Dutch: Leopoldsorde, French: Ordre de Léopold, German:

Leopoldsorden) is one of the three current Belgian national honorary orders of knighthood. It is the oldest and highest order of Belgium and is named in honour of its founder; King Leopold I.

Leopold received British citizenship in March 1816. On 2 May 1816, Leopold married

Princess Charlotte of Wales at Carlton House in London.

As Charlotte grew to adulthood, her father pressured her to marry William, Hereditary Prince of Orange (later King of the Netherlands). After initially accepting him, Charlotte soon broke off the intended match. This

resulted in an extended contest of wills between her and her father, who finally permitted her to marry Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (later King of the Belgians).

After a year and a half of happy marriage, Charlotte died after delivering a stillborn son.
Charlotte's death set

off tremendous mourning among the British, who had seen her as a sign of hope and a contrast both to her unpopular father and to her grandfather, whom they deemed mad. She had been King George III's only legitimate grandchild, meaning there was a chance the throne would pass to a

distant relative. The King's unmarried sons thus looked for wives and his fourth son, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, fathered the eventual queen, Victoria.

Leopold's physician-in-ordinary was Christian Stockmar (later, as Baron Stockmar, adviser to both Queen

Victoria and Prince Albert).

After Charlotte death at 21, Stockmar stayed in Leopold's service as his private secretary, comptroller of the household, and political advisor. It is said, that one of the services he provided was procuring a mistress for Leopold.

After Leopold had

briefly come under scrutiny for the position of King of the Greeks, he was made King of the Belgians in 1831. From then on, Stockmar took up residence in Coburg, continuing to advise Leopold. In 1837, he was sent by Leopold to serve as advisor to Queen Victoria: one of his first

tasks was to brief her on whether Leopold's nephew, Prince Albert (later Prince Consort), was a suitable mate. After the marriage of Victoria and Albert, Stockmar became their unofficial counsellor, including in the education of Victoria's son and heir, the future King Edward

VII, and intervened in several crises.

In 1848 he was made ambassador of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the parliament of the German Confederation.
His prominence in the United Kingdom's political circles led to resentment at what was seen to be Albert's (and, generally,

German) intervention in the UK's affairs.

Josette Sheeran also served as the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, appointed on June 20, 2017, representing UN Secretary General António Guterres in advancing Haiti's transition from an aid-dependent economy, at the end of more than 17 years

of UN peace-keeping operations. She has crafted the first UN “pay for success” development bond to help secure an end to the transmission of cholera in Haiti.

The New UN's Approach to Cholera in Haiti was launched under former Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon when he publicly

apologized for the UN's role in Haiti's cholera epidemic in December 2016. The apology came six years after soldiers from the UN's peacekeeping mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH, introduced the disease by contaminating Haiti's Artibonite River, causing more than 10,000 deaths.

She represented the United States at a wide variety of high-level bilateral and multilateral meetings, serving as Alternative Governor for the World Bank; the Inter-American Development Bank; the African Development Bank; the Asian Development Bank; and the European Bank for

Reconstruction and Development. Congress also confirmed her as a Member of the Board of Directors for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

Prior to her tenure as Under Secretary, Sheeran served as Deputy United States Trade Representative in the Office of the U.S. Trade

Representative (USTR). There, she was responsible for trade negotiations and treaties in Asia and Africa, driving U.S. efforts to open new markets and enforce existing trade agreements in China, East Asia, South Asia and Africa and for advancing global negotiations on

counterfeiting, pharmaceuticals, labor, environment and trade capacity building.

Before joining USTR, Sheeran was managing director of Starpoint Solutions, a Wall Street technology firm that works with Fortune 500 clients.

Sheeran got her start in journalism in 1976 with the New York News World, which was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate owned by the Unification Church, which she had recently joined.

The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification,

widely known as the Unification Church, is a new religious movement whose members are called Unificationists and sometimes colloquially "Moonies". It was officially founded on 1 May 1954 under the name Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (HSA-UWC)

in Seoul, South Korea by Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012), a Korean Messiah claimant also known for his business ventures and engagement in social and political causes.

September 4, 2012
The death of Reverend Sun Myung Moon hopefully ends one of the strangest chapters in U.S. security

industrial complex history. The self-proclaimed "Messiah" who owned dozens of businesses including Kahr Arms, and who once claimed to have presided over Jesus' wedding posthumously in order to get the Christian savior into heaven, was ultimately a front in the United States for

friends in the CIA like George Herbert Walker Bush.

To understand the historical significance of Rev. Moon and his Moonies, one must start with Ryoichi Sasakawa, identified in a 1992 Frontline investigative report as the key money source behind Moon's far-flung world religious/

business empire. Sasakawa bragged to Time magazine that he was "the world's richest fascist."
In the 1930s, Sasakawa was one of Japan's leading fascists. He organized a private army of 1500 men equipped with 20 war planes. His followers were Japan's version of Mussolini's Black

Shirts. Sasakawa was a key figure in leading Japan into World War II and was an "uncondemned Class-A war criminal." Following WW II, he was captured and imprisoned for war crimes. According to U.S. documents, Sasakawa was suddenly freed with another accused war criminal, Yoshio

Kodama, a prominent figure in Japan's organized crime syndicate, the Yakuza. They were freed in 1948, one year after the National Security Act established the CIA as the successor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). In January 1995, Japan's KYODO News Service uncovered

documents establishing that Kodama's release coincided with an agreement he had made with U.S. military intelligence two months earlier to serve as an informant. Declassified documents link Kodama's release to the CIA.
During WW II, Kodama activities, according to the U.S. Army

counterintelligence records consisted of "systematically looting China of its raw materials" and dealing in heroin, guns, tungsten, gold, industrial diamonds and radium. Both Sasakawa's and Kodama's CIA ties are a reoccurring theme in their relationship with Rev. Moon.

Ms. Sheeran serves as a director on numerous boards, including the Capital Group, one of America's oldest and largest investment management organizations. She also serves on the Board of Directors, and as co-chair of the Finance & Human Resources Committee, of the Alliance for a

Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), founded through a partnership between the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006 in response to a call from former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who said the time had come for African farmers to wage

a “uniquely African Green Revolution.”
Sheeran is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Capital Group is an American financial services company. It ranks among the world's oldest and largest investment management organizations, with over $2.6 trillion in assets under

management. Founded in Los Angeles, California in 1931, it is privately held and has offices around the globe in the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe.

In 1931, Jonathan Bell Lovelace founded the investment firm, Lovelace, Dennis & Renfrew, which would eventually become

Capital Group. Lovelace had previously been a partner in the stock brokerage firm E.E. MacCrone, where he explored the concept of developing an open-end mutual fund. He eventually sold his stake in that company, just before the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

In 1933, Lovelace's firm

took over management of The Investment Company of America, which he had launched at E.E. MacCrone in 1927. For the next 20 years, his firm enjoyed modest success. As mutual funds gained in popularity in the 1950s, Capital's roster of mutual funds grew.
The International

Resources Fund, established in 1954, was Capital's first foray into international investing. A year earlier, Lovelace had established an international investment staff at the urging of his son, Jon Lovelace Jr. The establishment of the firm's first overseas research office in

Geneva followed in 1962.

Jonathan Bell Lovelace was born in 1895. He grew up in Brewton, Alabama and attended Auburn University.

Lovelace spent most of the 1920s at a Detroit banking/brokerage firm, developing his investment research techniques and earning impressive results.

In 1924, he became a partner in E.E. MacCrone.

Lovelace founded Capital Research and Management Company in 1931 which was at first a small firm named Lovelace, Dennis and Renfrew.
MacCrone had split from a firm that was a predecessor of Merrill Lynch to form E.E. MacCrone & Co.,

a small stock- brokerage in Detroit—then the equivalent in industrial creativity to today’s Silicon Valley. He had the support of important clients like Walter Chrysler, W.C. Durant, and Stuart Mott of General Motors.

Lovelace recruited Albert Hettinger and Donald Smith, from

Harvard Business School; Alexander Standish, from AT&T; Ray Chambers, chief of statistics at the U.S. Treasury; and Ragnar Naess, of the New York Federal Reserve. He also set up a group of economic consul- tants that included Professor Lionel D. Edie, from the University of

Chicago; Professor Irv- ing Fisher, from Yale; Edmund Ezra Day, from Michigan; and Joseph Davis, from Stanford.

Later, Edie formed one of the nation’s largest investment counsel firms—Lionel D. Edie & Co.—which ultimately also became part of Merrill Lynch. Hettinger joined

Lazard Frères after retiring in his 60s from a distinguished academic career at Harvard Business School.

Clients included the Gross brothers, for whom Lovelace helped raise the capital to buy control of Lockheed Aircraft; Pacific Mutual Life; Capitol Records, where he was a

founding director; Muzak, where he was one of the original investors; and Walt Disney, where he served as the first outside director. He worked particularly closely with Roy Disney, who was struggling with the financing of movies and whom Lovelace introduced to a rising banker,

A. P. Gianinni of Bank of America. Lovelace also helped finance the noted cartoon movie Fantasia.

Lovelace had been one of the five trustees of Investment Company of America when it was organized in Detroit as a closed-end investment company or mutual fund in 1926. Lovelace was

also president of American Capital Corporation, which purchased from E.E. MacCrone its controlling interest in Southern Bond & Share. Into the early 1960s, Detroit was the location for Investment Company of America’s lawyers and annual meetings of shareholders.

ICA Members

included the President of Burroughs Adding Machine; the president of Parke- Davis pharmaceuticals; Roy Chapin, the chairman of Hudson Motors; Stuart Mott; Edgar A. Pierce of EA Pierce & Company; and several others.