Wolf Ladejinsky

Wolf Isaac Ladejinsky (March 15, 1899 – July 3, 1975) was an American Georgist agricultural engineer, agricultural economist and social researcher, serving first for the American government in the United States Department of Agriculture, then the Ford Foundation and later the World Bank. Ladejinsky was a key adviser on land reform to the governments of several Asian countries, including Japan from 1945 to 1954 (during the Occupation) as well as Mainland China and later Taiwan under Chiang Kai-shek, South Vietnam from 1955 to 1961 under Ngo Dinh Diem, and countries in Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent as a whole. His efforts in Japan and Taiwan were a striking success, but his later efforts were frustrated by political persecution due to his socialist political opinions that were misled with communism during McCarthysm. Improving the welfare of Asian farmers through agrarian reform was his goal throughout his long career, earning him praise as "no typical bureaucrat, but an avid and impassioned reformer".