Barend de Vries (1925–2010) was Chief Economist at the World Bank.
Barend was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands and was brought up as a member of the Dutch Reformed Church.
In 1943, whilst a student at the University of Utrecht he was arrested and sent to a concentration camp, as the occupying Nazis wished to make an example of some students following the killing of a Dutch Nazi general.
However after the war he was able to finish his degree and proceed to post graduate education at the University of Chicago finally gaining a PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[1] He was married to Margaret Garritsen de Vries.