Stevan Dedijer

Physicist, academic, business intelligence pioneer. Born in Sarajevo, he attended secondary school in Rome, Italy, and graduated from the Taft School in Connecticut, in 1930. He earned a degree in physics at Princeton University in 1934. He was a paratrooper in The 101st Airborne Division in the US army during WW2 and landed in Normandy. In 1949 he returned to Yugoslavia as a researcher at the Belgrade Nuclear Institute where he served as director from 1952-1955. He was awarded a honorary PhD from the University of Lund in Sweden where he founded the Research Policy Institute. He was the first person in Europe to teach business intelligence at a university & co-founder of the Swedish Intelligence Network BISNES. He was coined the grandfather of business intelligence CIA Director William Colby.