The Alaska World Affairs Council Presents

Frank Ruddy
Former US Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea
Served as the Deputy Chairman for the
UN Peacekeeping Referendum
for the Western Sahara

"Peacekeeping in Western Sahara"

Friday, 2nd November, 2007 – Hilton Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 a.m. - Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
RSVP by Wednesday, 31st October to the Alaska World Affairs Council
by telephone 276-8038 or by email to AlaskaWorldAffairs.org .
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only

  Frank Ruddy's Speech in English
  Frank Ruddy's Speech in Spanish

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

OF COUNSEL, LAW FIRM: SALE & QUINN, 910 16th STREET, N.W., FIFTH FLOOR,WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006.

LAW DEGREES: LL.B. LOYOLA UNIVERSITY; LL.M. (in International Law) NEW YORK UNIVERSITY; Ph/D. in International Law) CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES: SPANISH AND FRENCH.

BAR ADMISSIONS: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (1967): NEW YORK (1972); TEXAS (1975).

CURRICULUM VITAE:

BORN AND RAISED IN NEW YORK CITY. ATTENDED HOLY CROSS COLLEGE, WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, A.B.; NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, M.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE; LL.M., International Law; LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, LL.B.; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, Ph.D. International Law; HAGUE ACADEMY, THE PEACE PALACE, THE HAGUE, SUMMER COURSE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW.

BARS: MEMBER OF NEW YORK, D.C. AND TEXAS BARS.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
AUTHOR, INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT, OCEANA PUBLICATIONS, DOBBS FERRY, NEW YORK 1975. (BOOK WAS Ph.D. DISSERTATION.)

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, THE INTERNATIONAL LAWYER, PUBLICATION OF AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, CIRCULATION 11,000 +, 1978-1983.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL LAW CASES, VOLUMES 2-31. IN THIS PUBLICATION I WORKED WITH PROFESSOR RICHARD BAXTER, LATE OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, FIRST AS ASSISTANT EDITOR, AND, AS PROFESSOR BAXTER’S CHOSEN SUCCESSOR, AS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF WHEN HE WAS NAMED TO THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE IN THE HAGUE.

MILITARY: HONORABLE DISCHARGE, U.S. MARINE CORPS.

WORK HISTORY:

ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL AND THEN DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL, U.S. INFORMATION AGENCY. (NOW PART OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT.)

SENIOR ATTORNEY, OFFICE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY, THE WHITE HOUSE.

COUNSEL, EXXON CORPORATION, HOUSTON, TEXAS.

ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR, USAID; THIS CARRIES AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE RANK AND IS A PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENT REQUIRING SENATE CONFIRMATION.

U.S. AMBASSADOR, EQUATORIAL GUINEA.

GENERAL COUNSEL, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.

(FOR ALL THESE JOBS I HAD TOP SECRET CLEARANCE; FOR THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT POSITION I HAD Q CLEARANCE AS WELL.)

AFTER LEAVING GOVERNMENT IN 1990, I BECAME WASHINGTON COUNSEL FOR SIERRA BLANCA CORPORATION, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION.

IN 1994 I WAS APPOINTED DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE U.N. PEACEKEEPING MISSION, KNOWN AS MINURSO, IN WESTERN SAHARA. MY JOB WAS TO RUN THE REFERENDUM IN WHICH THE SAHRAWIS, THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE REGION, WERE TO CHOOSE WHETHER TO BE INDEPENDENT OR PART OF MOROCCO.

THEREAFTER, I PRACTICED LAW IN WASHINGTON AS A SOLE PRACTIONER, THEN AS A PARTNER IN RUDDY AND MUIR AND CURRENTLY AS AN OF COUNSEL MEMBER OF THE FIRM SALE & QUINN.