Background
Plaks, Livia Basch was born on April 29, 1947 in Baia Mare, Romania. Daughter of Kalman and Cecilia (Freund) Basch. came to the United States, 1964. Naturalized, 1969.
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Livia Basch Plaks
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AB, Rutgers University, 1969; AM, New York University, 1971.
Career
Executive associate International Research and Exchange Board, Princeton, New Jersey, 1986-1992. Associate director Project on Ethnic Relations, 1992-1994, executive director, 1994—2005, president, since 2005. Rapporteur Organization Security Cooperation in Europe on Roma issues, Warsaw, Poland, 1994.
Member United States Task Force on Romania, since 1992. Mediation team between Romanian Government and Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, since 1992. Member Council for Ethnic Accord, 1992-2000.
Mediation team between Slovak and ethnic Hungarian Parliamentary parties of Slovakia, 1995-2002. Mediation team Serbs and Albanians of Kosovo, since 1995. Testified to and for Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe on issues of Roma/Gypsies, 1994, 98, ethnic minorities, 2003.
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Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Women in International Security, Council Foreign Relations.
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Married Andrew H. Plaks, June 9, 1968. Children: Jason, Eric.
