A Conversation with Ambassador Richard T. Mccormack

Richard T. McCormack

Jan 2013 · Xlibris Corporation

About this ebook

Ambassador Richard McCormack has spent his career focusing on geopolitics and the global economy. In the George H.W. Bush Administration, Ambassador McCormack served as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and as the principal coordinator for the G-7 economic summits. He was awarded the State Departments highest award by thenSecretary of State James A. Baker and also received the French Legion of Honor. He received his Ph.D. magna cum laude from theUniversityofFribourginSwitzerlandand his B.A. fromGeorgetownUniversity. Ambassador McCormack is an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations, CSIS, the Economic Club of New York, and other organizations. He has authored numerous publications.

About the author

Alfred H. Moses, a former partner and now senior counsel at Covington & Burling, LLP, Washington, is a co-founder and chief operating officer of Promontory Financial Group and affiliates in Washington. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Romania, 1994-97, and as the President’s Special Emissary for the Cyprus conflict from 1999-2001. In the Carter administration Ambassador Moses served as special counsel and special advisor to the President and was Lead Counsel to the President in the Billygate hearings. From 1976 to 1989 he negotiated the exodus to Israel of Jews from Communist Romania. An honorary national president of the American Jewish Committee, Ambassador Moses presently serves as Chair of UN Watch (Geneva), the Project on Ethnic Relations, the AJC National Advisory Council and in 2006 chaired AJC’s 100th Anniversary Committee