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McLeod, Thomas H.

Thomas Hector MacDonald McLeod was born August 11, 1918 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. He graduated from Weyburn Collegiate Institute in 1936, and attended Brandon College (B.A. in Economics, 1940); Indiana University (A.M. in Economics, 1941); and Harvard university (M.P.A., 1948, Ph.D., 1959). Dr. McLeod taught economics and sociology at Brandon College from 1941 to 1944, and from 1944 until 1946 he was an economic adviser to the Government of Saskatchewan. For the next three years he was secretary of the Economic Advisory and Planning Board of the Saskatchewan Government and, from 1949 to 1950, he was director of the Saskatchewan Budget Bureau. He was appointed deputy provincial treasurer in 1950. He joined the University ofSaskatchewan, Saskatoon as Dean of the College of Commerce in 1952, serving until 1964 when he was appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Science at Regina Campus. He served as Vice-Principal of Regina Campus from 1968 to 1970. During his tenure at the University Dr. McLeod served on numerous university and external bodies. In 1970 he chaired the University of Sasktchewan committee studying the role of the university in the community, and was chairman of the Sasktchewan Royal Commission on Taxation, 1963-1964. As an economic consultant Dr. McLeod undertook several appointments. In 1960, he was in Turkey on a Ford Foundation appointment as chief consultant to the Turkish government on a project involving the central government planning agency. The following year he spent in Iran as supervisor of an eight-man Harvard University advisory team to advise the Iranian government on economic planning activities and organization. In 1970 he travelled to Africa as a member of a commission to advise on the academic and physical reorganization of the University of Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland, and in 1971-72 he worked in Ottawa advising the Canadian International Development Association (CIDA) on foreign aid to post-secondary institutions in 30 countries. Dr. MacLeod was married and had five children.