Robert Queener, who had been a foreign service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), died March 12, 2013, of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 74.
A 1961 civil-engineering graduate of Cornell and ROTC cadet-brigade commander, he then served two years in Army intelligence. In 1966, he graduated with a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. That year, Queener was sent by the Ford Foundation to New Delhi, India, where he worked on manpower and agrarian self-sufficiency.
In 1970, he joined USAID, and served in Brazil, Thailand, and lastly in Jamaica, where he was the director of the mission in that country. Queener retired from USAID in 1997, after which he worked as a consultant to emerging economies in Eastern Europe. These included the Ukraine, Russia, Albania, and Bulgaria, as well as the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Kazakhstan.
Queener is survived by his wife, Carolyn; two sons; and four grandchildren.
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