The Society for International Development is an international, non profit educational and scientific organisation founded on 19 October 1957 and incorporated in the District of Columbia, USA. Its purposed: to provide means for and stimulate exchange of ideas, facts and experience in the pioneering field of international development.
The membership of the society consists in the main of persons engaged in or associated with programmes of international development - administrators, economists, engineers, educators, health officers, lawyers etc. They included many nationalities and professions and work in many kinds of organisations, public and private, national and international
The Council of the SID is the governing body of SID. It is composed of representatives of five regions (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America). European regional conferences are held every two years.
The SID was organised to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, facts and experience among all persons professionally concerned with the vital problems of economic and social development in modernising societies. A principal means of providing such a forum is the annual World Conference of the Society.
The Society was also known in French as the Association pour le développement International (ADI). Giulio Fossi since he was based in Paris at the OECD Development Centre became affiliated to the French Section of the SID

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The Society for International Development (SID) files are those kept by Giulio Fossi during his active membership of the Association. They are not the official archive of the SID