Benjamin Huger Read; Leading Foreign Affairs Scholar

Benjamin Huger Read, 67, founding director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and president of Ecofund ’92. A leading foreign affairs scholar who served in the State Department during the Johnson and Carter administrations, Read was educated at Williams College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 1973, he was named founding president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, endowed by the West German government to promote industrial and other exchanges between the United States and Europe. He was a chief organizer of last year’s Earth Summit conference in Rio de Janeiro, where Ecofund ’92 was created. On March 18 in Washington of liver disease.