Nielsen, Waldemar A.

Waldemar A. Nielsen (1917-2005) worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and served in World War II before joining the Ford Foundation in 1952. He was later elected president of the African-American Institute, a foundation beneficiary. Starting his own firm, Waldemar A. Nielsen, Inc., in 1970, he advised such prominent philanthropists as John D. Rockefeller III, The Big Foundationsand The Golden Donors.