Married Carolyn Talbot Seely; children: Kate, Elizabeth, Thomas, Jonathan.
Born Tsingtao, China, July 3, 1935; B.A. (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard College, 1957; Ensign/Lt. (jg) U.S.N., 1957-60; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1963. Practice of law, 1963-70, International, Corporate and Non-Profit law. General Counsel, Archaeological Institute of America, 1968-1976; Advisor, United States Department of State, International Convention on Illicit Traffic in Antiquities. Investment management, 1971-97; Chairman, The Millburn Corporation, 1977-97, ShareInVest, 1982-97.
Co-Founder and Chair Emeritus of New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium, 1974; President and Founder, Institute for Aegean Prehistory, 1981-, and of the Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete, 1995-; Founder, the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, 1989; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2012-2016; Member of the Board of Trustees, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1984-2016; Founder, the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, 1992; Trustee Emeritus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995; Member, Council on Foreign Relations, Chair of Independent Task Force on “Non-lethal Technologies: Military Implications and Options,” 1995.
Litt.D. (hon.) University of Sheffield, 1997; Ph.D. (hon.) Eberhard-Karl University, Tübingen, 1998; D. (hon.) University of Athens, 1998; D.H.L. (hon.) University of Cincinnati, 2007; D.Sc. (hon.) University College London, 2009; D.A. (Doctorate of Archaeology) (hon.) Dickinson College, 2013; D.Sc. (hon.), University of Arizona, 2014; Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of London, 1998; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999; Foreign Corresponding Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 2001; Foreign Corresponding Member, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2004; Corresponding Member, Austrian Archaeological Institute, 1999; Corresponding Member, Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 2005; Corresponding Member, Academy of Athens, 2018; Honorary Fellow for Life, Archaeological Institute of America, 1979; Honorary Member of the Board, Archaeological Society at Athens, 2018; Honorand of an International Conference organized by the Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1998: The White Slip Ware of Late Bronze Age Cyprus; Honorand of Festschrift published by the Université de Liège entitled Meletemata: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year, 1999; Honorand, 11th International Cretological Congress, 2011; Recipient of the Archaeological Institute of America’s Bandelier Award for Public Service to Archaeology, 2013; Ring of Honour, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, 2000; Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), 2004; Recipient of the Gold Cross of the Order of Honor, Greece, 2014; Recipient of the Athens Prize of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2017.
Simpson Lectures at Yale University, 2009; occasional lecturer at the University of Heidelberg, University of Tübingen, University of Vienna, Charles University (Prague), University of Salzburg, University of Warsaw, University of Cincinnati, Institute of Fine Arts (New York), University of California San Diego, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (New York).
Author of numerous archaeological publications (1984–present)—see Archaeological Publications page for a complete list. Non-archaeological publications include “Picasso and the Cuban Missile Crisis”, Apollo, October 2001; “Judge Learned Hand and the Problem of Monopoly: The Court as Economist”, Thesis, privately printed, 1957.