Sidney Weintraub

Sidney Weintraub (; 18 May 1922, New York City – 10 April 2014, Cuernavaca, Mexico) was an economist, foreign service officer, professor, non-fiction author, and novelist.

After leaving U.S. government service, he was the Dean Rusk Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs from 1976 to 1994; emeritus thereafter) and holder of the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., from 1994 to 2011.

Early life

Sidney Weintraub was born 18 May 1922 in New York City to Reuben and Anna (Litwin) Weintraub. In Mexican Slay Ride - set in Mexico where Weintraub had been a diplomat - Barber seeks a woman's killers, eventually uncovering a drug smuggling ring. Reviewing the book in The Saturday Review, "Sergeant Cuff" called the book "Colorful and noisy." In The Siamese Coup Affair, Barber becomes involved in a political assassination and coup d'état.

At the U.S. State Department, Weintraub became the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Finance and Development from 1969 to 1974. He was the Assistant Administrator of Interagency Development Coordination from 1974 to 1975, and also the executive director of the committee.

From 1976 to 1994 he was the Dean Rusk Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. (emeritus after 1994), and was the founding director of the LBJ School's program in U.S.-Mexican policy studies. From 1994 to 2011, he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

Select publications

Novels

Non-fiction books

(Coauthor with Stanley R. Ross)

(foreword by Paul A. Volcker) (foreword by Julius Katz)

(Project co-director with Douglas Johnston)

Edited

(Coeditor with Norman V. Walbek) (Editor with William R. Cline)

(Coeditor with Sergio Diaz-Briquets) (Coeditor with Sergio Diaz-Briquets) (Coeditor with Sergio Diaz-Briquets) (Coeditor with Sergio Diaz-Briquets) (Coeditor with Sergio Diaz-Briquets) (Coeditor with Luis F. Rubio and Alan D. Jones) (Coeditor with Rafael Fernandez de Castro and Monica Verea Campos) (Codirector with Chandler Stolp and Leigh Boske) (Editor) (Coeditor with M. Delal Baer) (Coeditor with Joyce Hoebing and M. Delal Baer) (Coeditor with Frank D. Bean, Rodolfo de la Garza and Bryan Roberts) (Coeditor with Christopher Sands)