Turkish economist and politician, Turkish Minister of Economy (died 2023)

Kemal Derviş

Kemal Derviş was a Turkish economist and politician who was head of the United Nations Development Programme. He was honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to mainstreaming Japan's development assistance policy through the United Nations". In 2005, he was ranked 67th in the Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll conducted by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines. He was vice president and director of the global economy and development program at the Brookings Institution and part-time professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

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1949

January 10

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1949 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

-49 Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
9 The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the Xin dynasty.
69 Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor.
236 Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.

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The world in 1949

When Kemal arrived

april 1 Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
april 1 The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.
april 18 The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force, declaring Éire to be a republic and severing Ireland's "association" with the Commonwealth of Nations.
april 20 Amethyst incident: The People's Liberation Army attacks HMS Amethyst (F116) travelling to the British embassy in Nanjing during the Chinese Civil War.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Husayn ibn Ali 626–680 the third Shia Imam (died 680) Jake Delhomme 1975– American football player Jeffrey Catherine Jones 1944–2011 American comics and fantasy artist (died 2011) Jerry Wexler 1917–2008 American journalist and producer (born 1917) John Carlson 1990– American ice hockey player John Dalberg-Acton 1834– 1st Baron Acton, Italian-English historian and politician (died 1902) K. J. Yesudas 1940– Indian singer and music director Leonid Kravchuk 1934–2022 Ukrainian politician, 1st President of Ukraine (died 2022) Shawn Colvin 1956– American singer-songwriter and guitarist

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Also born in 1949

Alan García 1949–2019 Peruvian lawyer and politician, twice President of Peru (born 1949) Alla Pugacheva 1949– Russian singer-songwriter and actress Anna Wintour 1949– English-American journalist Beth Grant 1949– American actress Billy Joel 1949– American singer-songwriter and pianist Carlos the Jackal 1949– Venezuelan terrorist David A. Cherry 1949– American artist and illustrator Dominique Strauss-Kahn 1949– French economist, lawyer, and politician, French Minister of Finance Don Baylor 1949–2017 American baseball player (born 1949)

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