Henry David Owen (August 26, 1920 – November 5, 2011) was a diplomat, Brookings Institution Director (1969–78) and United States Ambassador at Large for Economic Summit Affairs from 1977 to 1981, on the National Security Council.
[1][2][3] Owen was born in Forest Hills, Queens.
He graduated from Birch Wathen Lenox School, and Harvard University with a BA in 1941.
He was director of foreign policy study, at the Brookings Institution, from 1968 to 1977.
[4][5] He was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, Council on Foreign Relations,[6] and Trilateral Commission.