John Shattuck

John Shattuck, President and Rector, Central European University

John Shattuck (born 1943) is an international legal scholar and human rights leader, became the fourth President and Rector of Central European University (CEU) in August 2009. CEU is a global institution of graduate education in the social sciences, the humanities, law, business, environmental studies, government and public policy, with students from over 100 countries. Under Shattuck's leadership, CEU plans to open a new School of Public Policy and International Affairs in the fall of 2011.

Biography

Prior to his appointment as President and Rector of CEU, Shattuck had served as Chief Executive Officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, and Senior Fellow at Tufts University, where he taught international relations.

Shattuck has had a distinguished diplomatic career. As United States Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor from 1993 to 1998, under President Bill Clinton, he played a key role in the establishment by the United Nations of the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and former Yugoslavia, working closely with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. He also worked with an international coalition under UN authority to restore a democratically elected government to Haiti, and later participated with Ambassador Richard Holbrooke in negotiating the Dayton Peace Agreement and other efforts to end the war in Bosnia. From 1998 to 2000, he served as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic. There he worked with the Czech government to prepare the country's accession to NATO, to assist in overhauling the country's legal system, and to support innovative civic education programs in the country's schools and universities.

Shattuck was Vice President of Government, Community and Public Affairs at Harvard University from 1984-1993. His career began at the American Civil Liberties Union, where he served as Executive Director of the Washington office and national staff counsel, and handled a number of prominent civil rights and liberties cases, including Halperin v. Kissinger, a successful challenge to the warrantless wiretapping program conducted by the Nixon White House.

Shattuck is the author of three books, including Freedom on Fire, a study of the international response to genocide and crimes against humanity in the 1990s and has published more than 50 articles on human rights, civil liberties, international relations, public service and higher education. In 2007, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A graduate of Yale Law School, where he received a JD degree, Shattuck was awarded an MA from Clare College, Cambridge University, with First Class Honors in International Law, and a BA from Yale College, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He has received honorary degrees from Kenyon College, the University of Rhode Island, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, and the University of Western Bohemia in the Czech Republic. He received the Ambassador's Award from the American Bar Association Central and East European Law Initiative, the Human Rights Award from the United Nations Association of Boston, and the Yale Law School Public Service Award. At Yale, he was a member of Skull and Bones.

External links

• Appointment as President of Central European University
• Biography
• Bio from CEU Presidential Search advisor

Government offices
Preceded by Patricia Diaz Dennis	Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor June 2, 1993 – November 13, 1998	Succeeded by Harold Hongju Koh
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Jenonne R. Walker	U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic 1998–2000	Succeeded by Craig Roberts Stapleton