Mordecai Joseph Brill Ezekiel (May 10, 1899 – October 31, 1974) was an American agrarian economist who worked for the United States government and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
[1][2] He was a "New Deal economic advisor" who shaped much of the President Franklin D. Roosevelt's agricultural policy.
After the 1932 presidential election, he also met with President-elect Franklin Roosevelt, Rexford Tugwell, M. L. Wilson, and Henry Morgenthau Jr., to discuss the farm policy of the new administration.
Born in Richmond, Virginia, he was the son of Jacob and Rachel Brill Ezekiel (who had been a secretary to the suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt).
[5] Ezekiel married Lucille Finsterwald and they had three children—David, Jonathan, and Margot.