Lewis “Jack” White

AFoCR Director, Lewis “Jack” White is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Mr. White also has a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University. He served three years with the U.S. army in World War II, most of the time in the China-Burma-India Theater. Mr. White was a career Foreign Service officer for many years, serving in Colombia, New Caledonia, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Morocco, Intelligence and Research in the State Department, dealing with the economics of the communist countries, the Economic Policy Staff of the Bureau of African Affairs in the State Department. Mr. White now serves on the Board of Governors of Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired and also on four of its committees.

Mr. White is President of the Wilsonian Club, which honors President Wilson and the founders of Czechoslovak independence in 1918 in association with the Woodrow Wilson House. His wife, Dagmar Hasalova, is the daughter of Czechoslovak General Antonin Hasal, who was President Benes’s Military Adviser in London during World War II.

Mr. White is also the Editor and co-author of the 3-volume series “On All Fronts: Czechoslovaks in World War II,” a collection of memoirs of Czechoslovaks who were fighting for a free and democratic Czechoslovakia.