Consiglio di Amministrazione

Ambassador Richard N. Gardner
Honorary Member

RICHARD N. GARDNER is Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School and Counsel to Morgan Lewis, a global law firm.

He served as US Ambassador to Italy from 1977 to 1981. In 1979, together with Guido Carli, the President of the Federation of Italian Industry (Confindustra) and ex-president of the Bank of Italy, he actively assisted in the constitution and promotion of The Italian Student Loan Fund - Fondo per Studenti Italiani.

He served as US Ambassador to Spain from 1993 to 1997. During his service in Spain , he received the Thomas Jefferson Award for his contributions to US citizens abroad. From 1961 to 1965 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs.

He was a member of the President's Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN) from 1999 to 2002, and was a member of the US delegation to the Ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization held in Seattle at the end of 1999. He currently serves as a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy.

Professor Gardner holds a BA degree in Economics from Harvard, a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Yale Law School , and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Economics from Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. His Oxford thesis, published by the Oxford University Press as Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy, has been described as the "classic" study of Anglo-American economic collaboration in the creation of the bretton Woods institutions and GATT.

He is the author of three other books on International Affairs, including In Pursuit of World Order: US Foreign Policy and International Organization and of numerous articles in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and other publications. In 1992 the Council on Foreign Relations published his booklet entitled Negotiating Survival: Four Priorities After Rio. Professor Gardner has recently published Mission: Italy. Gli Anni di Piombo raccontati dall'Ambasciatore Americano a Roma, (Mondadori 2004).

He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, the American Philosophical Society, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of Banco Santander. He also serves on the International Capital Markets Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange.

In 2000, Professor Gardner served as a public delegate to the 55th United Nations General Assembly and was a member of the US delegation to the UN General Assembly from 1961 to 1967. He served as Special Advisor to the United Nations at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio as he did in 1972 to the UN Conference on the Human Environment.