Johannes H. Egbers was born in The Netherlands to a Dutch father and a German mother. He lived under German occupation, the debacle of Operation Market Gerden, and one of the fiercest battles of WW2, Operation Veritable. After his engineering studies, he lived and worked as an engineer and managing director in five European countries and five States of the USA. He was ten years on the faculty of Lehigh University as a professor of engineering management after retirement. King Baudouin of Belgium knighted him in the Royal Order of the Belgium Crown for promoting transatlantic understanding. He is a US citizen and lives in Delaware.
