Herbert Stuart Okun

Background

Okun, Herbert Stuart was born on November 27, 1930 in New York City. Son of Irving and Ida Muriel (Levine) Okun.

Education

AB with great distinction, Stanford University, 1951. Postgraduate, Syracuse University, 1951—1952. Postgraduate, Princeton University, 1952.

Hochschule fuer Politische Wissenschaft, Munich, 1956—1957. Master of Public Administration, Harvard University, 1959. Master Naval Warfare, Naval War College, 1969.

Career

Member, United States Foreign Service, 1955-1991; vice consul, United States Foreign Service, Munich, Federal Republic Germany, 1955-1957; with Bureau Intelligence and Research,, Department State Office Soviet Union Affairs, Washington, 1959-1961; alternate director, Department State Office Soviet Union Affairs, Washington, 1971-1973; 2d secretary, American Embassy, Moscow, 1961-1963; consul, principal officer, American Consulate, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1964-1965; 1st secretary, principal officer, American Embassy, Brasilia, Brazil, 1965-1966; counsellor embassy, principal officer, American Embassy, Brasilia, Brazil, 1967-1968; assigned to, Naval War College, 1968-1969; special assistant to secretary of state, Department State, Washington, 1969-1971; deputy chairman United States Delaware, United States-Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Talks on Prevention Incidents at Sea, Department State, Washington, 1971-1972; special assistant for international affairs to commander-in-chief, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Southern Command, Naples, Italy, 1973-1974; minister-counsellor, deputy chief mission, American Embassy, Lisbon, Portugal, 1975-1978; deputy chairman, United States delegate Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Geneva, 1978-1979; vice chairman, United States delegate to trilateral United States-United Kingdom-Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Talks on comprehensive test ban treaty, Geneva, 1979-1980; ambassador to German Democratic Republic, East Berlin, 1980-1983; ambassador-in-residence, Aspen Institute, Washington, 1983-1985; ambassador, deputy permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations, New York City, 1985-1989. Representative of the United States to 40th, 41st, 42d and 43d sessions of General Assembly of United Nations, to United Nations Security Council, 1985-1989, to 29th and 30th sessions of Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, 1986, 87, to Disarmament communications of United Nations, 1985-1989, to Commission Human Rights, to 27th and 29th session of commission on program and coordination of Economics and Social Council, 1987, 89. Amb.in residence Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1989-1990.

Member United Nations secretary Gen's. Expert Group on Enhancing United Nations Structure for Drug Abuse Control, 1990. Founding executive director Finance Superior vena cava syndrome Volunteer Corps, New York City, 1990-1997.

Visiting lectr.Yale Law School, New Haven, since 1991. Special adviser to the personal envoy of the secretary general United Nations, Yugoslavia and Nagorno-Karabakh, 1991-1992. Special advisory, deputy co-chairman International Conference on former Yugoslavia, 1992-1993.

United States member United Nations International Narcotics Control Board, Vienna, Austria, since 1992. Advisory board Chazen Institute International Business Graduate School Business, Columbia University. Mem.bd. directors World Rehabilitation Fund.

Member of advisory board Minority Rights Group United States of America. Special advisor Carnegie Commision on Preventing Deadly Conflict. United Nations mediator Dispute between Greece & former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 1993-1997.

Membership

Commissioner United States-Poland Action Commn. Member International Council, Foundation Inter-Ethnic Relations, The Hague, Netherlands, since 1995, member Advisory Committee, Human Rights Watch, New York, since 1995. Member group international advisors International Committee Red Cross, Geneva, 1996-2000.

Board overseers Curtis Institute Music, Philadelphia. Advisory board international security studies Yale University, New Haven. Member advisory board Portuguese-American Leadership Council.

Board directors International Center New York, since 2004. Served with Army of the United States, 1952-1954. Member American Foreign Policy (national committee), American Academy Diplomacy, Lawyers Alliance World Security (national board directors), Washington Institute Foreign Affairs, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Lorraine Joan Price, December 5,1954 (divorced 1985). Children: Jennifer, Elizabeth, Alexandra. Married Enid Curtis Bok Schoettle, December 27, 1990.

Father:

Irving Okun

Mother:

Ida Muriel (Levine) Okun

Spouse:

Enid Curtis Bok Schoettle

Spouse:

Lorraine Joan Price

child:

Jennifer Okun

child:

Alexandra Okun

child:

Elizabeth Okun