PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - Henry S. Rowen, an American policymaker and Stanford University economist who was president of the RAND think tank when it produced the Pentagon Papers, has died.
He was 90.
Tom Gilligan, the director of Stanford's Hoover Institution, says Rowen collapsed at the university on his way to an event on Nov. 12. A cause of death hasn't been released.
A leading scholar on economic growth in the United States and Asia and a national security expert, Rowen started his career as a RAND Corp. economist and later became a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
He was president of RAND when Robert McNamara launched a study of U.S. policy in Vietnam, known as the Pentagon Papers, which were leaked to the press.
Rowen is survived by his widow, Beverly Griffiths, three daughters, three sons, and nine grandchildren.