Arthur Nichols Young (November 21, 1890 – July 19, 1984) was an American economist and U.S. government official who specialized in international economics.
He served as an economic adviser to foreign governments, including Argentina, Burma, China, Germany, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, and Saudi Arabia.
[2] He conducted attended Princeton University's Department of Economics (A.M., 1911; Ph.D., 1914) where he studied under monetarist economists, Frank Fetter and Edwin Kemmerer.
At the request of Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, he began work as an economic adviser for the Reparations Commission in Paris.
[12]: 114 In 1951, Young conducted an advisory mission to Saudi Arabia, where he was appointed Director of the Point Four program, a series of technical recommendations for developing countries outlined by President Harry S. Truman in January 1949.
[13] While Young's original plan was to create a central bank, he later drafted a charter for the creation of a currency board, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, in 1952.