In Memoriam
FrontLines - May 2009
Vincent William Brown, 84, died March 11 in Laguna Hills, Calif. Brown became a Foreign Service
Officer at USAID’s predecessor agency in the mid 1950s, and had been a project manager on the
Marshall Plan. He spent part of his Agency career managing U.S. assistance programs in Tunisia, the
Congo, South Korea, and Pakistan. From 1972-1977, he served as director of the USAID program in
Afghanistan. In an e-mail to FrontLines, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ted Eliot said: “Vince
Brown served as director of the USAID program in Afghanistan for four of the years I served there as
ambassador. He was a true professional in the field of development—in fact, a pioneer beginning with
his service in the time of the Marshall Plan. He was in every way a model public servant, giving his time,
energy, and expertise to his country in many difficult assignments.” Brown held a bachelor’s degree in
business administration from the University of California at Los Angeles, and was a graduate fellow in
International Relations at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. After retiring from the
Agency in 1977, Brown worked as a consultant in international development. Brown was also a Navy
veteran, having served as a chief petty officer during World War II.
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