Rita Hauser | |
---|---|
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council | |
In office February 1969 –March 1972 | |
President | Richard Nixon |
Preceded by | Morris B. Abram |
Succeeded by | Philip Hoffman |
Personal details | |
Born | New York City,New York,U.S. | July 12,1934
Political party | Republican |
Alma mater | Hunter College University of Strasbourg Harvard University University of Paris New York University |
Rita Eleanor Hauser (born July 12,1934 in New York) is an international lawyer known for persuading Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization to renounce violence in 1988. [1] She also served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights from 1969 to 1972. [1] George W. Bush appointed her to the President's Intelligence Advisory Board in 2001, [1] serving through 2004, [2] and she was appointed again by Barack Obama in 2009. [2]
Born of Jewish parents,Hauser was the elder of two daughters of Nathan and Frieda (Litt) Abrams,Rita Eleanor (Abrams).
In 1954 she received a B.A. from Hunter College in New York,after which she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for graduate work in France,which eventually resulted in receiving a doctorate in political economy from the University of Strasbourg. [1] She attended Harvard Law School for a while,then received a license en droit from the University of Paris (a rarity for an American) in 1958,then later received an LL.B. in 1959 from the New York University School of Law. [1]
Hauser served as co-chair of "New Yorkers for Nixon" during Richard Nixon’s successful 1968 presidential campaign. She then became the United States representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (1969–1972). She also served as a member of the United States delegation to the twenty-fourth UN General Assembly.
During her time at the UN that she met many key players in Middle East politics and became committed to her pursuit of conflict resolution in the Middle East,human rights and humanitarian law. During her term at the UN,she helped Jewish immigrants leave Russia and visited Palestinian refugee camps throughout the Middle East.
During this period she also met Golda Meir who soon became her mentor and role model. Meir inspired Hauser’s involvement in Middle East politics and encouraged her,a secular Jew,to learn more about Jewish history and her own Jewishness.
For more than twenty years,Hauser was a senior partner at Stroock &Stroock &Lavan in New York. [2]
Hauser chairs the International Peace Institute and is chair of the advisory board of the International Crisis Group,was elected in 2007 to the board of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva,Switzerland,chairs the American Ditchley Foundation,has served as a director of the RAND Corporation and the International Institute for Strategic Studies,and is currently a director of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts after having been a director of the New York Philharmonic Society for more than 20 years. [2] She also serves as an Advisory Board member for the Partnership for a Secure America.
She and her husband established the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard Kennedy School of Government,and she is Co-Chair of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Harvard Law School,and the Hausers also were the principal benefactors of the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University School of Law. [2]
A self-described Rockefeller Republican, [3] Hauser supported Barack Obama in the 2008 United States presidential election. [4]
Frances Ann "Fran" Ulmer is an American administrator and Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Alaska. She served as the seventh lieutenant governor of Alaska from 1994 to 2002 under Governor Tony Knowles,becoming the first woman elected to statewide office in Alaska,and lost the 2002 gubernatorial election against Republican Frank Murkowski. In 2007 she became the Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA),before serving as Chair of the United States Arctic Research Commission between 2011 and 2020,appointed by President Barack Obama.
William Anthony Kirsopp Lake is an American diplomat and political advisor who served as the 17th United States National Security Advisor from 1993 to 1997 and as the 6th Executive Director of UNICEF from 2010 to 2017.
Graça Machel is a Mozambican politician and humanitarian. She is the widow of former President of Mozambique Samora Machel (1975–1986) and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela (1998–2013). Machel is an international advocate for women's and children's rights and was made an honorary British Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997 for her humanitarian work. She is the only woman in modern history to have served as First Lady of two countries,South Africa and Mozambique.
Stroock &Stroock &Lavan LLP is an American law firm based in New York City,with offices also in Los Angeles,Miami,and Washington,DC.
Samantha Jane Power is an American journalist,diplomat and government official who is currently serving as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. She previously served as the 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017. Power is a member of the Democratic Party.
Robert Abrams is an American attorney and politician. He served as the attorney general of New York from 1979 to 1993 and was the Democratic nominee for the 1992 United States Senate election in New York.
Catherine "Cathy" Bertini is an American public servant. She is the 2003 World Food Prize Laureate. She was the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program from 1992 to 2002. She served as the UN Under-Secretary for Management from 2003 to 2005. Currently she is a distinguished fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs,the Chair of the Board of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and the Chair of the Executive Board of the Crop Trust.
The International Peace Institute is an independent non-profit lobby group based in New York. The institute has regional offices in Europe,and in the Middle East.
Martha Louise Minow is an American legal scholar and the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University. She served as the Dean of Harvard Law School between 2009 and 2017 and has taught at the Law School since 1981. Minow was one of the candidates mentioned to replace U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens upon his retirement. She has been called "one of the world's leading human rights scholars" and "one of the world's leading figures in bringing legal ideas and scholarship to bear on issues of identity,race and equality,including innovative approaches to reconciliation among divided peoples."
Valerie June Jarrett is an American businesswoman and former government official. She currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Obama Foundation. She previously served as the senior advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama and assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs from 2009 to 2017. Before that,she served as a co-chair of the Obama–Biden Transition Project.
Michael Braverman Goodman Froman is an American lawyer who served as the U.S. Trade Representative from 2013 to 2017. He was Assistant to the President of the United States and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs,a position held jointly at the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. In that position he served as the United States sherpa to the G7,G8,and G20 summits of economic powers. On May 2,2013 President Barack Obama nominated him to succeed Ambassador Ron Kirk as the U.S. Trade Representative. He was confirmed on June 19,2013.
Jeffrey Laurence Bleich is an American lawyer and diplomat from California.
Ertharin Cousin is an American lawyer who served as the twelfth executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme from 2012 to 2017. Following the completion of her term,Cousin became Payne Distinguished Professor at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies,distinguished fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment and the Center on Democracy,Development and the Rule of Law,accepted an appointment as a distinguished fellow with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs,and became a trustee on the UK based Power of Nutrition Board of Directors.
Juliette N. Kayyem is an American former government official and author. She is host of the WGBH podcast The SCIF. She is a national security analyst for CNN and is a weekly guest on Boston Public Radio. She is the Belfer Lecturer in International Security at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. She is a former candidate for Governor of Massachusetts and a former Boston Globe columnist,writing about issues of national security and foreign affairs for the op-ed page.
Sarah Bloom Raskin is an American attorney and regulator who served as the 13th United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 2014 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,Bloom Raskin previously served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2010 to 2014. She also was Maryland commissioner of financial regulation and a managing director at the Promontory Financial Group. She is a Rubenstein Fellow at Duke University. In May 2017,she was elected to the board of directors for Reserve Trust Company,a Fintech company based in Colorado. In January 2022,President Joe Biden nominated her to succeed Randal Quarles as vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve. On March 15,2022,she withdrew her nomination due to opposition from Republican senators and Democratic senator Joe Manchin.
Greg A. Rosenbaum is an American merchant banker based in Bethesda,Maryland. He is currently the co-principal owner and co-chair of the Dayton Dragons minor league baseball club,and a minority owner of the Mahoning Valley Scrappers collegiate summer baseball club.
Claire Rita Kelly is a judge of the United States Court of International Trade.
Jamienne S. Studley is the president and CEO of the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC),a regional accrediting agency serving a diverse membership of public and private higher education institutions throughout California,Hawaii,and the Pacific,as well as a limited number of institutions outside the U.S.
Valerie Biden Owens is an American political strategist,campaign manager and former educator. She is the younger sister of Joe Biden,the 46th and current President of the United States. In 2016,president Barack Obama nominated her Alternate Representative of the United States to the 71st Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Beth Young Karlan is an American gynecologic oncologist. In 2008,she was named editor-in-chief of the medical journals Gynecologic Oncology and Gynecologic Oncology Reports. In 2012,Karlan was appointed by the White House to serve on the National Cancer Advisory Board,and in 2015,she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.