About Paul Erdman
Paul Emil Erdman was a Canadian-born American economist and banker who became known for writing novels based on monetary trends and international finance. == Early life == Erdman was born in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, on 19 May 1932 to an American Lutheran minister and his wife. He graduated from Concordia Seminary in 1954 receiving a bachelor of divinity degree, and from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He was an assistant editor of the editorial page at the Washington Post and worked in a brokerage house in Washington. He received his PhD in economics, European history and theology from the University of Basel in Switzerland in 1958. In 1958 he worked as a financial analyst for the European Coal and Steel Community. Between 1959 and 1961, he worked as an economist at the SRI International in Menlo Park, California. == Banking career == "the Swiss, who tried to block publication of his 1959 doctoral thesis at the University of Basel because it uncovered part of the story of Swiss banks and their Nazi clients." Charles E. Salik hired Erdman to help his tax-protected, Bermuda-based Electronics International Capital (EIC). Salik and Richard Silberman were ousted from EIC by Jerome Kohlberg. Salik then launched Salik Bank, a Swiss bank, and hired Erdman as president, in 1965.
Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.