William Flynn Martin

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Full Name	William Flynn Martin
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	Oct 4, 1950(1950-10-04)
Age	74
Country	United States
Birth City	Tulsa
Horoscope	Libra

William Flynn Martin Biography

William Flynn Martin is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on October 4, 1950 in Tulsa, United States. Martin was his Executive Secretary in Martin was the Executive Secretary of National Security Council in the Reagan White House. It is the Executive Secretary who is top official of the NSC as per the National Security Act of 1947. In reality, it acts as NSC’s head of staff , responsible for coordination, budget , and managing the National Security Council. The Executive Secretary oversees National Security Council meetings and oversees important information and policy communications through the Cabinet as well as staff of NSC employees to the president. One of the tasks for the Executive Secretary, Mr. Martin as Executive Secretary was overseeing his oversight of the White House Situation Room located in the basement of the West Wing of the White House that is in constant contact in constant communication with Department of Defense, State Department, Intelligence Community and US embassies around the world.

While an undergraduate student at MIT He was a member of a team who put together 10 sessions of Congressional hearings presided over by Representative John Dingell on Growth and Its implications to the Future (Roundtable Press, 1973). The hearings were a response to the report of the Club of Rome The Limits to Growth, and aimed at giving an introduction to the Congressional hearings about the world’s environment, energy and economic prospects and the necessity of viable growth methods that are sustainable. He was also a part in the MIT engineer group which created an volume to the United Nations Environmental Program on resources for research in environmental management. He is the co-author of the report Professional Materials for Environmental Management Education (MIT Press 1975). The publication was prompted by the very first United Nations conference on the environment, which was held at Stockholm in 1972, and was facilitated by Maurice Strong who said of Growth and its implications for the Future “This small volume summarizes much of the important work going on today with regard to global survival…I know of no other publication to date which emphasizes more systematically or extensively, and in such readable form, the interacting relationships amongst diverse fields.”

Martin then moved to Paris where he was responsible for energy statistics for developing countries at the International Energy Agency Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and was part of a UN expert group that developed the methodology for reporting United Nations energy statistics. The statistics were published in the volumes I and II of the report Workshop on Energy Data of Developing Countries (IEA/OECD, 1978). Martin was also director of the IEA Workshop on Energy Statistics for Developing Countries that resulted in the first publication of energy statistics for over 100 countries in a matrix supply/demand integration format.

In 1981, Martin joined the United States Department of State as Special Assistant to Under Secretary of State James L. Buckley who recalled Martin’s activities in his book Gleanings from an Unplanned Life. The senior Reagan administration inter-agency “Buckley Group” that Martin coordinated sought to reduce European subsidies and credits to the Soviet Union. It also urged Europeans to reduce their dependence on Soviet gas and to find alternatives. Finally, it proposed market oriented energy policies for the United States (deregulation of oil and gas price controls, permitting Alaskan oil exports, allowing eminent domain for coal slurry pipelines) — all policies of which eventually came to fruition during the Reagan Presidency. (see reference to this again in James Buckley’s Gleanings from an Unplanned Life). Martin briefed President Reagan in the Oval Office that unless the US was credible in its energy policies, the Europeans would not take seriously our concerns on their over dependence on Soviet gas imports.

Martin is a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Martin earned an undergraduate degree in Science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1972, and the Master in Science from MIT in 1974. His master’s dissertation was the foundation for an article that he co-authored with George Cabot Lodge in the March 1975 issue of the Harvard Business Review entitled Our Society in 1985: Business Might Not Be Happy.

William Flynn Martin Net Worth

William Flynn Martin is one of the richest Economist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William Flynn Martin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Martin is a member of an early pioneering Oklahoma family of oil and politics. The great-grandfather of Martin Dennis T. Flynn was the first US Delegate from Oklahoma Territory to the U.S. House of Representatives, and was the first to be inducted to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. His father Olney Flynn served as mayor of Tulsa and was the Republican candidate to be the Governor for Oklahoma during 1948. Martin’s ancestors included John Chisum, the Texas cattleman who was played in the film Chisum by John Wayne in the movie Chisum.

William Flynn Martin (born October 4 1950) is an American energy economist as well as an educator and international diplomat. Martin was the special assistant for Ronald Reagan for National Security Affairs and Director of the Executive Secretariat of the United States National Security Council as well as United States Deputy Secretary of Energy during the Ronald Reagan Administration. Martin was president of the Council of the University for Peace and was elected as a member of the Council by the Secretary General United Nations Kofi Annan. He was appointed to the Council in 1992 by Secretary General Kofi Annan. served as the executive director for the Republican Platform committee under George H. W. Bush.

In 1978, he was promoted to Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the IEA, Ulf Lantzke, and served in this capacity for two years during the time of the Second Oil Shock. At the commencement of the Iran-Iraq war, it was agreed that nations should coordinate their oil stock draws in the event of a major disruption. As the Special Assistant to the IEA Executive Director, Martin served as the coordinator for four IEA Ministerial meetings where he aided in the drafting of several communiques, including the one from 1981 that is the basis of IEA agreements today on coordinated stock draw as well as a key element of the 2009 discussions between Henry Kissinger (the founder of IEA), Nobuo Tanaka (then Executive Director) and Martin on expanding this concept to include China, India and other advancing nations. A letter from Kissinger to Martin recognizing his contribution in this regard can be seen online.

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Martin helped arrange President Reagan’s international meetings coordinating with the White House Advance Office, NSC staff and the Department of State. He participated in the President’s visits to Japan (1983), South Korea (1983), China (1984), Ireland (1984), United Kingdom (1984), the D-Day fortieth anniversary commemoration on Normandy beaches in France (1984), Canada (1985), Spain (1985), Germany (1985), EU Parliament (1985), the Reagan-Gorbachev Geneva Summit (1985) and several G-7 economic summit meetings (Williamsburg, London and Bonn). Working closely with the State Department and NSC staff, he also coordinated the preparation of President Reagan’s Oval Office head of state meetings. As NSC Senior Director for Coordination, he coordinated and participated in the President’s major bilateral meetings with, among others, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan, Shimon Peres of Israel, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada, President Ali Saibou of Niger, King Hussein of Jordan, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the UK, Prime Minister Bettino Craxi of Italy, Prime Minister Kåre Willoch of Norway, Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanond of Thailand, Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the USSR, OECD Secretary General Jean-Claude Paye, UN Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany.

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At the time of the Iran-Iraq war in 1984, Martin was responsible for the coordination of an NSC Special Situation Group headed by Vice-President Bush on building up the defensive capabilities of friendly Middle Eastern countries and developing a strategy to cope with potential oil market disruptions. The briefing to the President was the culmination of several meetings of the NSC working group, documents of which can be found here: Memo on Internal Paper on Persian Gulf; Memo outlining talking points; Memo to McFarlane on working group; Memo to Clark updating the situation; and cables between President Reagan and British Prime Minister Thatcher on the subject. Martin’s role was detailed by Robert C. McFarlane in his book Special Trust, an excerpt of which can be seen online. The plan, approved by the President and Vice President, was an important step in building US military capability in the Gulf resulting in the successful defense of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in the 1991 Gulf War. The plan also stimulated the buildup of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Martin’s now declassified presentation to the President can be seen online