John Ruggie

John Gerard Ruggie (born October 18, 1944) is the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. Since 2005, Ruggie has served as the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises.

He was born in Graz, Austria, son of Josef and Margaret Ruggie, and moved to the United States in 1967. He married Mary Zacharuk in 1965, with whom he has one son.

He has been Dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where he taught for many years; he has also taught at the University of California's Berkeley and San Diego campuses and directed the UC systemwide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

Ruggie is widely considered to be one of his generation's most influential political scientists, especially within international relations. He has, for instance, borrowed from Karl Polanyi the term embedded liberalism to explain the post World War II international economic system among western capitalistic states.

A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ruggie is a recipient of the International Studies Association's Distinguished Scholar Award and the American Political Science Association's Hubert Humphrey Award for outstanding public service by a political scientist. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.

From 1997 to 2001, he was Assistant Secretary-General and chief advisor for strategic planning to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Ruggie has a BA in politics and history from McMaster University in Canada; a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley; and a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from McMaster.

See also

• International relations theory
• Constructivism in international relations

External links

• [1] John Ruggie's personal website