William Henry Luers

Background

Luers, William Henry was born on May 15, 1929 in Springfield, Illinois, United States. Son of Carl University and Ann L. (Lynd) Luers.

Education

AB, Hamilton College, 1951; Doctor of Laws, Hamilton College, 1984; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1958; postgraduate, Northwestern University, 1951-1952.

Career

He is the director of the Iran Project. In addition to a thirty-one-year career in the Foreign Service, Luers has served as a United States. Navy officer, as president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and as president of the United Nations Association of the United States of America. Luers is an adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

He received a Bachelor of Arts from Hamilton College and an Master of Arts from Columbia University.

Luers served as an officer in the United States. Navy from 1953 to 1957 before joining the United States Foreign Service. His career in the Foreign Service spanned thirty-one years and included service as United States. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1983-1986), United States. Ambassador to Venezuela (1978-1982), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe (1977-1978), and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (1975-1977).

Luers served for thirteen years as the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City before becoming president pf the United Nations Association of the United States of America (University of North Alabama-United States of America) in February 1999. Luers currently serves as director of the Iran Project, "a high-level group that has long supported negotiations with Iran."

In the past, Luers has been a visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

The director"s visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study (1982-1983).

Visiting lecturer at George Washington University, and visiting lecturer. At the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He currently serves as an adjunct professor of international and public affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

Luers serves on several nonprofit boards, including the boards of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, National Museum of Natural History, Trust for Mutual Understanding, and Rubin Museum of Artist

He also serves as the American International advisor for the Praemium Imperiale Annual Awards to the Arts.

Achievements

• William Henry Luers has been listed as a noteworthy foundation administrator, museum administrator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of advisory board Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York City. Trustee advisory county Appeal of Conscience Foundation, New York City. Board directors Institute for East West Studies, New York City, New York Convention and Visiting Bureau.

Trustee Eurasia Foundation, Washington. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Council Foreign Rels., Economics Club New York (board directors).

Connections

Married Wendy Woods Turnbull, October 18, 1979. Children by previous marriage: Mark B., David L., William F., Amy L.

Father:

Carl University Luers

Mother:

Ann L. (Lynd) Luers

Spouse:

Wendy Woods Turnbull