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Richard N. Gardner
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 824
Professor of Law and International Organization
Phone: 212-854-4635
rng4@columbia.edu
Biography:
Richard N. Gardner first became a member of Columbia University in 1957. In 1961 he left the university to accept a high ranking governmental position. Today he is the Henry L. Moses Professor of Law at Columbia University School of Law and professor of international organization at SIPA.
Professor Gardner's first publication was his Oxford University thesis, published by the Oxford University Press as Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy. It has been described as the "classic" study of Anglo-American economic collaboration in the creation of the Bretton Woods institutions and GATT. He is the author of three other books on international affairs including In Pursuit of World Order: US Foreign Policy and International Organization (Praeger 1965) and of numerous articles in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. In 1992 the Council on Foreign Relations published his booklet entitled Negotiating Survival: Four Priorities After Rio.
In addition to his teaching career, Dick Gardner has a very rich professional biography. He served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy from 1977 to 1981 and as the U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1993 to 1997. During his service in Spain, he received the Thomas Jefferson Award for his contributions to U.S. citizens abroad. From 1961 to 1965 he served as deputy assistant secretary of state for International Organization Affairs. He was a member of the President's Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN) from 1999 to 2002, and was a member of the U.S. delegation to the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization held in Seattle at the end of 1999. In 2000, Professor Gardner served as a public delegate to the 55th United Nations General Assembly and was a member of the U.S. delegation to the UN General Assembly from 1961 to 1967. He served as a special adviser to the United Nations at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio as he did in 1972 to the UN Conference on the Human Environment. From 1982 to 1993 he was cochairman of the Aspen Institute Program on the United States and the World Economy. He also served from 1988 to 1992 as Chairman of the U.S. group in a joint Russian-American program on the United Nations and collective security, established under the auspices of the U.S. and Russian UN associations.
He currently serves as a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, the American Philosophical Society, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a member of the board of directors of the San Paolo IMI Bank Group and of the international advisory board of Banco Santander Central Hispano. He also serves on the International Capital Markets Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange. He is a member of a UN association group engaged in a dialogue on multilateral issues with the Chinese Institute of International Studies. Presently he also serves as off counsel with the global law firm of Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius.
Professor Gardner holds a BA in economics from Harvard, a JD from Yale Law School, and a PhD degree in economics from Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar.