{{Not to be confused with|Robert Charles Browne}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = <!-- see [[MOS:CREDENTIAL]] and [[MOS:HONORIFIC]] --> | name = Robert Span Browne | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = <!-- use only if different from full/othernames --> | birth_date = 1924 <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = 2004 <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | death_cause = | nationality = <!-- use only when necessary per [[WP:INFONAT]] --> | citizenship = <!-- use only when necessary per [[WP:INFONAT]] --> | other_names = | occupation = Economist | period = | known_for = advocacy of Black development | title = | boards = <!--board or similar positions extraneous to main occupation--> | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = <!--notable national-level awards only--> | website = | education = | alma_mater = <!--will often consist of the linked name of the last-attended higher education institution--> | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | era = | discipline = <!--major academic discipline – e.g. Physicist, Sociologist, New Testament scholar, Ancient Near Eastern Linguist--> | sub_discipline = <!--academic discipline specialist area – e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th-century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist--> | workplaces = <!--full-time positions only, not student positions--> | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Robert Span Browne''' (born 1924<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collection: Robert S. Browne Collected Papers {{!}} Archives & Manuscripts |url=https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/scpc-cdg-a-browne_robert_s |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu}}</ref> – August 5, 2004)<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Robert S. Browne: A Voice of Integrity |url=http://www.noeasyvictories.org/select/14_browne.php |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=www.noeasyvictories.org}}</ref> was an economist who founded African-American self-help programs.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Washington Times |first=The Washington Times |title=Robert S. Browne, 79, economist, professor |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/aug/16/20040816-111028-1544r/ |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=The Washington Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |date=2004-08-15 |title=Robert S. Browne, 79, Dies; Economist and Advocate |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/15/us/robert-s-browne-79-dies-economist-and-advocate.html |access-date=2022-07-13 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
==Education== Browne graduated from the [[University of Chicago]] with an honors degree in economics. He served in the Army Air Forces. In 1947, he was among the first black Americans to receive an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Chicago. He completed postgraduate studies at the [[London School of Economics]] and, later, completed doctoral work at the [[City University of New York]].<ref name=":0" />
==Career== In 1955, Browne joined the [[Agency for International Development]]. There he was a program officer in Cambodia until 1958 and was reassigned to South Vietnam, where he was stationed until 1961.<ref name=":0" />
After 1961, he was project director for the Stokes-Phelps Fund and, until 1971, taught economics at [[Fairleigh Dickinson University]] in Teaneck.<ref name=":0" />
Browne founded the 21st-Century Foundation, which was formed in 1971. he was active in the economic development work in Cambodia and Vietnam.<ref name=":0" /> In 1969, he founded the Black Economic Research Center in Harlem and directed it until 1980.<ref name=":0" />
In 1971, he set up an Emergency Land Fund to prevent the shrinking of black land ownership in the southern United States.<ref name=":0" /> From 1980 to 1982, he was the first U.S. executive director of the African Development Bank in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />
He then was a senior research fellow at Howard University and, until 1991, staff director of a House subcommittee dealing with issues involving the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and Third World debt.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
== Legacy == Browne's papers are stored at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Robert S. Browne Collected Papers (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection |url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace//////CDGA.A-L/browne.htm |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=www.swarthmore.edu}}</ref>
==Personal life== Browne was born in Chicago and lived in [[Teaneck, New Jersey]].<ref name=":2" /> Browne married Huoi Nguyen Browne, whom he met while working in Cambodia. At his death, he had two daughters and two sons.<ref name=":0" />
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