Guy Benveniste

Guy Benveniste is Professor Emeritus , University of California at Berkeley. He was born in 1927 in Paris, France and narrowly escaped the holocaust by going to Mexico in 1942. Educated at the French Lycee and the American School in Mexico City, he completed a BS and MS at Harvard. He then worked for the Mexican Light and Power company in Mexico City and came to reside in the US in 1954. He was involved in US foreign aid programs, first working for the Stanford Research Institute, then for the US Department of State during the Kennedy Administration, the World Bank, and UNESCO where he was instrumental in the creation of the International Institute for Educational Planning in Paris in 1963. He obtained a PhD from Stanford and was appointed on the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in the turbulent year of 1968. He authored some eleven books on the politics of planning and bureaucracy before retiring in 1993. His memoir titled "From Paris to Berkeley" was published in 2010.