Alden Winship "Tom" Clausen
World Bank, Accessed November 27, 2010. (February 17, 1923 – January 21, 2013) was

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from 1981 to 1986. He was also president and CEO of

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in 1970 and again in 1986.

Education

Clausen was born in

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to a family of Norwegian and German ancestry. He was the son of Morton Clausen, owner, editor and publisher of the ''Hamilton Press'', the town's weekly newspaper. His mother was Elsie Emma Kroll. He graduated from

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in 1944 with a BA (and was awarded an honorary LLD in 1970), from the

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in 1949 with a

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, and attended the

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's six-week Advanced Management Program in 1966.

Bank of America

Clausen was certified to practice law after graduating from the University of Minnesota Law School, but instead he got a job at the

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. He became vice president in 1961, senior vice president in 1965, executive vice president in 1968, vice chairman of the board in 1969, and president and

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in 1970.

World Bank

In 1981 Clausen was appointed president of the

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. He was replaced 5 years later by

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. His term as

president saw the massive scaling up of structural adjustment lending that had been introduced under his predecessor

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Return to Bank of America

Clausen returned to Bank of America as chairman and

in 1986 but stepped back from an active executive role in 1990 to be chairman of the executive committee. During his time at the bank he helped it grow to be the biggest

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in the

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. Clausen was also a member of the Advisor Council of

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and was on the board of governors of

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Legacy

*In 1980, Clausen received the Golden Plate Award of the

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presented by Awards Council member

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*A.W. Clausen Center for World Business at

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, is named in his honor. *Clausen Center for International Business and Policy at the

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was endowed by a gift from Peggy and Tom Clausen in 1995.

References

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External links

Official World Bank Biography of Alden Winship Clausen
* 1923 births 2013 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople American bank presidents American people of Norwegian descent California lawyers Carthage College alumni People from Hamilton, Illinois Presidents of the World Bank Group University of Minnesota Law School alumni 20th-century American lawyers {{US-business-bio-1920s-stub