Eli Heckscher
Heckscher was born in Stockholm, son of the Jewish Danish-born businessman Isidor Heckscher and his spouse Rosa Meyer, and completed his secondary education there in 1897. He studied at Uppsala University and Gothenburg University, completing his PhD in Uppsala in 1907. He was professor of Political economy and Statistics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1909 until 1919, when he exchanged that chair for a research professorship in economic history, finally retiring as emeritus professor in 1945. In 1929 Heckscher founded the Institute for Economic History Research.
Kenneth Eichner
As a child, Eichner was a basketball enthusiast and attended Morgan Wooten's basketball academy at St. John's, where his coach was James Brown, now an announcer for CBS. Eichner attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, then studied English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He completed his undergraduate degree at North Carolina State University in art history and design and went on to study at Antioch School of Law where he was editor of the Law Review. During law school he free-lanced as a journalist and wrote for several local papers, including one publication in The Washington Post, as well as served as an editor for "Trial Handbook for Lawyers." Eichner interned with the D.C. Court of Appeals for Judge James A. Belson. During law school Eichner was awarded a Department of Justice scholarship and clerked in the homicide division of the U.S. Attorney's Office. Upon graduation Eichner clerked for William C. McCullough, chief district court judge of Prince George's County, Maryland.