David Klaus '67
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David Klaus '67 was employed by the World Bank from September of 1973 through December of 2001, at which point he became a consultant to World Bank and to Mahidol University of Bangkok, Thailand and the Linguapax Institute, a branch of UNESCXO, in Barcelona, Spain. While employed by the World Bank, he held several positions, including as Lead Human Resources Specialist, Human Development Sector Unit East Asia and Pacific Region. With the World Bank, he has visited or lived in Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, Viet Nam, Brazil, Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, and Lesotho. Many of his projects include introducing the use of national languages in primary education. Klaus graduated from Cornell College in 1967 with a BA in Religion and a minor in French. His passion for languages led him to study French language and literature at the Université de Dijon in France , German language and literature at the Goethe-Institut in Germany, and Theology, Latin and ancient Greek at the Universität Zürich in Switzerland before entering the Peace Corps. In 1973, he obtained a Master's of Public and International Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. |
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| While on campus April 28 and 29, 2008, Klaus gave lectures in two courses, Professor Todd Knoop's Macroeconomics Seminar and Professor David Yamanishi's U.S. Foreign Policy Course. He also participated in a discussion of William Easterly's The White Man's Burden with the spring reading group. He lunched on pizza with faculty and students and presented a public lecture entitled, "The Use of Indigenous Languages in Early Basic Education in Papua New Guinea: A Model for Elsewhere?" *co sponsored by Beta Omicron Distinguished Alumni Visitors Program |
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