Sidney Weintraub was an economist, foreign service officer, professor, non-fiction author, and novelist. After leaving U.S. government service, he was the Dean Rusk Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs (from 1976-1994; emeritus thereafter) and holder of the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. (from 1994-2011).