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Luigi R. Einaudi was elected to a five year term as
Assistant Secretary General in June 2000 at the 30th regular session of the
OAS General Assembly, held in Windsor, Canada. He served as Acting Secretary
General from October 16, 2004 upon the resignation of Secretary General
Miguel Angel Rodríguez until May 26, 2005 when Secretary General Jose Miguel
Insulza assumed Office.
As Assistant Secretary General, Ambassador Einaudi served
as Secretary to the political bodies and carried out diplomatic efforts to
reduce tensions in several countries. He helped broker talks related to the
maritime and territorial differences in Central America – between Belize and
Guatemala, as well as Honduras and Nicaragua – and has supported demarcation
of the El Salvador-Honduras border. He has also worked tirelessly to find a
solution to the political crisis in Haiti.
From 1995 to 1998, Ambassador Einaudi was the United
States Special Envoy in the peace talks that led to a comprehensive
settlement by Ecuador and Peru of their centuries-old territorial conflict.
In December 1999, when tensions over maritime boundaries broke out between
Honduras and Nicaragua, Einaudi was called on to help promote dialogue. As
Special Representative of the OAS Secretary General, he successfully
brokered a separation of the countries’ military forces pending a decision
on the boundary dispute by the International Court of Justice.
Ambassador Einaudi retired from the U.S. Department of
State in July 1997 after serving on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning
Staff (1974-1977 and 1993-1997), as Director of Policy Planning for the
Bureau of Inter-American Affairs (1977-89), and as U.S. Ambassador to the
OAS (1989-1993). In his quarter century with the State Department, he played
a major role in articulating policy and consulting with almost every Latin
American nation, as well as Japan, most Western European nations and NATO,
on a range of matters including the Panama Canal treaties, human rights
issues, the Caribbean Basin Initiative and the Central American and Haitian
crises
Ambassador Einaudi received awards from Presidents Jimmy
Carter, Ronald Reagan and George Bush, as well as Secretaries of State Henry
Kissinger and Madeleine Albright. He also received the 1997 Frasure Award
for peace-making and seven other medal citations from the Departments of
State and Defense. In February 1999 the presidents of Ecuador and Peru
personally decorated Ambassador Einaudi for his role in bringing peace to
their countries.
Luigi Einaudi earned A.B. (1957) and Ph.D. (1966) degrees
at Harvard University. From 1964 to 1974, he conducted research in the
social sciences at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. He has
taught at Harvard, Wesleyan, UCLA and Georgetown universities, and lectured
widely in the United States, Latin America and Europe. He has written dozens
of articles and monographs and was the principal author of Beyond Cuba,
Latin America Takes Charge of Its Future (1974). He is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations and is on the board of educational and
non-profit institutions in the United States and Italy.
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