Frank E. Loy
Frank E. Loy was Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs from 1998 to January 2001. As such, he was responsible for, among other things, the environment and science, human rights, the promotion of democracy, refugees and humanitarian affairs, counter-narcotics and international law enforcement. During his tenure he served as chief U.S. negotiator for a number of treaties, including those on climate change and on trade in genetically modified agricultural products.
He served in the Department of State in two previous administrations. During 1979-1981 he served as Director of the Bureau of Refugee Programs, with personal rank of Ambassador, and from 1965 to 1970 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs.
He has spent a number of years in the business sector. He was a partner in the firm engaged to bring the bankrupt Penn Central Transportation Company out of bankruptcy, and in that connection served for five years as the president of the Penn Central subsidiary that owned its extensive the non-railroad businesses. Subsequently he was president of the solvent corporation that emerged from the bankruptcy. Earlier he had served as Senior Vice President for International Affairs of Pan American World Airways, and practiced corporation law with the Los Angeles firm of O’Melveny & Myers. He has served on numerous corporate boards of directors.
From 1981 to 1995 he was President of The German Marshall Fund of the U.S., an American foundation that funded as well as conducted programs in the field of US/European political, economic and environmental relations. During the early years following the fall of the Berlin wall, a large part of its program focused on the promotion of democratic institutions in former Soviet-bloc European countries.
In 1996 he was a visiting lecturer in International Law and Policy at the Yale Law School.
He has served as chairman of numerous non-profit boards, including the Environmental Defense Fund (now Environmental Defense), the League of Conservation Voters, Goddard College, and the Washington Ballet, and he was a founding director of The Institute of International Economics and of the Budapest-based Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe.
He is at present a member of the boards of Environmental Defense, the Pew Center for Global Climate Change, Resources for the Future, Population Services International, The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, as well as the International Advisory Council of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships.
He received his B.A. from UCLA and L.L.B. from Harvard. He is married to the former Dale Haven, a professional painter, and has two children, Lisel, of Washington, DC and Eric of Los Angeles
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