Douglas Keare, a retired international-development official with the World Bank, died Jan. 8, 2019, at the age of 84.
Keare graduated from Dartmouth College with a bachelor’s degree and also completed a Tuck/Thayer program in business and engineering. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton in 1966.
Keare began his career in international development with the Ford Foundation and worked in Malaysia. He joined the World Bank in 1970 in Bangladesh. When he and his family were evacuated from Bangladesh in 1971 he moved to Washington, D.C., where he “enjoyed an exciting and rewarding career at the Bank,” and he and his wife, Ginger, raised their children.
When he retired from the World Bank, Keare moved to Boston, where he worked with the Harvard Institute for International Development and the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy until he fully retired. Thereafter, he and his wife enjoyed many summers at Cape Cod. Throughout his life, he said, “travel was in my DNA.”
Keare is survived by his wife, Ginger, whom he married in 1959; three children; and nine grandchildren.
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