Stuart E. Eizenstat

Stuart Eizenstat and Anne Wexler, August 10, 1978

Stuart Eizenstat (born January 15, 1943) is a partner at Washington, D.C. law firm, Covington & Burling and senior strategist at APCO Worldwide. He was married to the late Frances Eizenstat, and has two sons and seven grandchildren.

He received his Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1967. He served as a law clerk for the Honorable Newell Edenfield of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Prior to entering law school, he earned an A.B., cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a brother of the Alpha Pi Chapter of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.

From 1977 to 1981, he was President Jimmy Carter’s Chief Domestic Policy Adviser, and Executive Director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff. In 1983, he wrote for Quarante magazine an article entitled, The Quiet Revolution. He was the first to describe the "feminization of poverty." He was President Bill Clinton's Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (1999–2001), Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs (1997–1999), and also served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the International Trade Administration (ITA) from 1996 to 1997.

He has served as the United States Ambassador to the European Union from 1993 to 1996 and as co-chairman of the European-American Business Council (EABC). Eizenstat is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Panel Foundation.

In 2008, the Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat Distinguished Professorship in Jewish history and culture was endowed in Eizenstat's honor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Awards

For his work he has received the Courage and Conscience Award from the Government of Israel, the Knight Commander's Cross (Badge and Star) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Legion of Honor from the Government of France, and the International Advocate for Peace Award from the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Bibliography

Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II with Forward by Elie Wiesel (2003)

See also

• Christoph Meili

External links

• Covington & Burling
• Taking on the Unfinished Business of the Twentieth Century
• APCO Worldwide
• Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the US
• Official Website of the Global Panel Foundation
• Eizenstat Report on Nazi Gold and Neutral Countries in World War II

Government offices
Preceded by Joan E. Spero	Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs June 6, 1997 – July 16, 1999	Succeeded by Alan Larson
Preceded by Lawrence Summers	United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury 1999 – 2001	Succeeded by Kenneth W. Dam