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Overview
H. Stephen Halloway (Ambassador retired), special advisor, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, discusses the ins and outs of working for international organizations.
Date(s)
2/25/2009
Time
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location
4151 Grainger Hall
Cost
Free
Target Audience
All students and recent graduates interested in working in international organizations
Sponsors
Division of International Studies
International Institute
Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)
Speaker Biographies
H. Stephen Halloway is special advisor to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and serves as a senior advisor at the International Law Institute. He was formerly senior advisor in the Inter-American Development Bank’s Office of External Relations where he had responsibility for congressional affairs and private-sector outreach related to the IDB group: The Bank, Inter-American Investment Corporation and MIF.
He served as senior advisor, North-South Trade & Investment Ltd., Edmonton, Canada, representing the company in Washington, D.C., as well as senior advisor to the president, Andrade Gutierrez Environmental Group (Brazil). Mr. Halloway was head of mission, United Nations Industrial Development Organization at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 1990 to 1994 (accorded diplomatic privileges and immunities as head of mission).
Prior to his appointment to this post, he served from 1985 to 1990 at the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C. As policy advisor for trade and legislative affairs he was the principal advisor in the Office of External Relations on international trade, legislative issues in the United States, Europe, Canada and Japan and liaison with the private sector. Later, as the first, chief, public information section, he supervised public affairs activities aimed at informing member governments, non-government organizations and the private sector about bank operations and activities.
Before being appointed to his position at the Inter-American Development Bank, Mr. Halloway served from 1981-1985 in a variety of senior executive service positions in the Office of the Secretary, United States Department of Commerce. As associate general counsel for legislation and regulation he was responsible for managing the legislative, regulatory and product liability programs and served as the department's chief regulatory officer. In the National Telecommunications and Information Administration he served as chief counsel and principal legal advisor within the executive branch of the U.S. government on telecommunications policies.
Mr. Halloway was general counsel to United States Senator Robert W. Kasten, Jr. in 1981. From 1976 - 1981, he was Republican staff counsel to the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, United States Senate. From 1973 - 1976 he was an attorney with the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice.
He has been a member of the Private Advisory Council, State Legislative Leaders Foundation since 1981. In 1994 he was appointed by the mayor of New York to serve on the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation and in 1995 was appointed to the advisory board of the Institute for Caribbean Studies. He served on the board of directors (executive vice president) of the Canadian-American Business Council 2002-2006; currently a member of the board; and serves on the board of the National Collegiate Conference Association. He is an advisor to the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute. From 1995 to 2000 he was senior Washington editor for the Diplomatic World Bulletin and The Wall Street Transcript (accredited to the State Dept., World Bank, UN, White House). He served as a member of the Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners from 1982-1988 and its vice-chair during 1987-1988. He continues to serve as a bar examiner. He is a member of the Wisconsin and District of Columbia bars. He is a 1969 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison; holds degrees from Rutgers University where he received an MA in political science in 1970 (Ford Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics) and a J. D. from the Boston University School of Law in 1973 and a 1976 recipient of its Young Lawyers Award.