page_title: International Executive Service Corps
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: International Executive Service Corps / History
caption_attribution_description: English: In this photo, David Rockefeller takes the podium as President Lyndon Johnson looks on in the White House Rose Garden on 15 June 1964 to announce the launch of the International Executive Service Corps.
context_page_description: International Executive Service Corps is an international economic development not-for-profit organization with headquarters in Washington, D.C. IESC was founded in 1964 by David Rockefeller, States M. Mead III, Frank Pace, Sol Linowitz, and other American business leaders. IESC has worked in sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Eurasia, Asia and the Near East, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Geekcorps is a division of IESC.
  IESC's stated mission is to improve living standards by strengthening private enterprise. Since its founding, IESC claims to have helped businesses create or save over 1.5 million jobs, with projects serviced by a combination of staff, consultants and volunteers.
context_section_description: IESC's first board meeting took place on June 15, 1964, in Washington D.C. and included American business leaders including David Rockefeller; president of Chase Manhattan Bank; Ray R. Eppert: president of Burroughs Corporation; C. D. Jackson, senior vice president of Time, Inc.; John H. Johnson, president of Johnson Publishing; Dan A. Kimball, chairman of Aerojet; Sol M. Linowitz, chairman of Xerox Corporation; and William S. Paley, chairman of CBS. C.D. Jackson died in the opening days of his chairmanship of IESC and was replaced by Frank Pace. By 1965, IESC was operating in Thailand, where Raytheon executive Ray Ellis was assigned as management advisor to T. S. Lin, President of Tatung Engineering Company.  When IESC celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1984, the organization was working in 74 developing countries.  Since then the total number of IESC project countries has doubled to more than 130 countries.
caption: David Rockefeller and President Johnson launch IESC in the White House Rose Garden in 1964
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