Miriam Camp Camps, a Foreign Affairs Officer, editor, and author was born in 1916 in Lynn, Massachusetts and graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1937. After receiving her master's degree from Bryn Mawr College in 1938, she was a foreign affairs officer in the U.S. Department of State from 1939-1954. During that time she worked in several foreign affairs departments. Among them were the Board of Economic Warfare at the U.S. Embassy in London, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Economic and Social Affairs, the Policy Planning Staff and the Bureau of European Affairs. She specialized in problems relating to European economic cooperation and integration and was involved in the development and implementation of the Marshall Plan, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (which became the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), the European Coal and Steel Community and other forerunners of the European Community. In 1953 she was acting head of the US Delegation to the annual meeting in Geneva of the UN Economic Commission for Europe. In 1954, she resigned to marry Professor William A. Camps, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge University and was an editor at the Economist from 1954-1956. Camps returned to the Department of State in 1961 as a consultant to the under secretary for economic affairs, and in 1967 she became an international economist in the Office of the Secretary. She was appointed vice chairwoman of the Policy Planning Staff from 1968-1970. She was associated with the organization known as Political and Economic Planning (London), the Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs (London), and the Council on Foreign Relations (New York). Her association with the Council on Foreign Relations began in 1963, and led to the publication of several studies, among them "First World Relationships: the Role of the OECD"; the "1980s Project," and "The New Multilateralism: Can the International Trading System Be Saved?" (in collaboration with William Diebold). Camps was the author of eight books, including "Britain and the European Community, 1955-63"; "What Kind of Europe?"; and "European Unification in the Sixties". She also wrote numerous articles for professional journals. She received an honorary LL.D. degree from Mount Holyoke College (1959); was a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge University; and was a member of the Executive Committee and Council of the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London. Camps died in 1995.
From the guide to the Camps Papers MS 0627., 1937-1995, 1960-1980, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)
