31 Facts About Harald Malmgren

Harald Bernard Malmgren was an American writer, lobbyist, and federal trade negotiator.

Harald Malmgren was recruited into the federal government by the John F Kennedy administration, and worked under several presidents.

Harald Malmgren's clients included Japanese business interests, who paid high fees for his work.

Harald Malmgren was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 13,1935.

Harald Malmgren spent a year at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before transferring to Yale University.

From 1957 to 1959 Harald Malmgren had a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, allowing him to do research at Harvard University.

Harald Malmgren lectured at Cornell University, where in 1962 he was an assistant professor of economics.

Harald Malmgren moved to the office of the United States Trade Representative in 1964 during the presidency of Lyndon B Johnson, where he was a senior economic advisor.

In 1965, Harald Malmgren was hired as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

Harald Malmgren worked on mathematical analysis aimed at predicting the impact of lessening tariffs on the American economy.

Economist Francis M Bator used the numbers that Malmgren generated to conclude that the trade agreement would negatively impact American trade surpluses, but that signing an agreement was still in the US's best interest.

That summer Harald Malmgren led an American delegation in negotiations over the International Grains Agreement.

Harald Malmgren was a senior fellow at the Overseas Development Council.

When Eberle was named trade representative in late 1971, Harald Malmgren became involved again with the office and recommended that Pearce be hired to fill the empty role of trade deputy.

Harald Malmgren edited the 1972 book Pacific Basin Development: The American Interests, for the ODC.

Harald Malmgren felt that economic power, and particularly trade agreements, could become what Dryden calls "the dynamic force" in international affairs.

In 1972, Eberle picked Harald Malmgren to become his second deputy.

Harald Malmgren worked on writing of the Trade Act of 1974, which granted the US President fast track authority in trade negotiations.

Harald Malmgren remained at the office, serving as the acting trade representative until February 19,1975, when he resigned.

Harald Malmgren later worked as a staff analyst for United States Senate Committee on Finance member Abraham Ribicoff.

Harald Malmgren was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Spring 1975 and 1976, and from 1976 to 1977, he was on the faculty of George Washington University.

Harald Malmgren worked as a consultant to the European Community's trade negotiation arm in early 1979, as the Tokyo Round was ending.

Harald Malmgren represented the Japan Whaling Association and was paid $300,000 to help Japanese TV manufacturers avoid import duties for dumping their merchandise in the US market.

Dryden argues that while Harald Malmgren's lobbying did not substantially impact US policy, he set a precedent for exorbitant fees to be paid in trade lobbying.

Toshio Obi, in his 1980 book The Japan Lobby, wrote that Japan's lobbying in the US was "next to idiotic" as Harald Malmgren's fees were "out of order" with the standard fees lobbyists were then charging.

Harald Malmgren noted that Malmgren and his partner "have absolutely no special relationship with me and are completely out of line to make such a representation".

Harald Malmgren said that the advertisement was "an awful mistake" and "not a good thing to do" in retrospect.

America's foremost trade authority", attributing Harald Malmgren's later move into lobbying as signaling a change in acceptability of that profession: "[his] shift onto the payroll of foreign interests.

Harald Malmgren continued to work as a consultant in Washington, DC until at least 2015.

In 2024, Harald Malmgren publicly claimed that decades prior, he had been briefed on "otherworld technologies" by CIA officer Richard Bissel.

Harald Malmgren later married Linda Einberg and had three more children.