The three most important GATT reformers in Geneva were all devotees of Hayekian thought. [fact]
The three most important GATT reformers in Geneva were all devotees of Hayekian thought. First was Jan Tumlir, the head of the research division from 1967 to 1985, remembered by some as the “resident phi losopher” of GATT. Tumlir was born in Czechoslovakia in 1926 and studied law in Prague before emigrating in 1949. After two years in West Germany, he moved to the United States, where he earned a PhD in economics from Yale in 1964. He moved to the research position at GATT that year, and was also a faculty member at the Graduate Institute of International Studies from 1968 until his premature death by heart attack at the age of fifty-nine. The library of the Graduate Institute was housed in the Centre William Rappard, and Tumlir's library of several hundred volumes is still housed as the “Jan Tumlir Legacy Collection” in the building that is now the home of the WTO.
Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 799