| JOHN RITCH | | Print | |
| Wednesday, 02 August 2006 | |
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DIRECTOR GENERAL, WORLD NUCLEAR ASSOCIATION
John Ritch is Director General of the World Nuclear Association. Previously he spent seven years as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Organizations in Vienna. There, he was U.S. representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization. His principal concerns were strengthening nuclear safeguards and the nuclear crises with Iraq and North Korea. Previously, he served 22 years as senior advisor on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, specializing in East-West relations, NATO affairs, and arms control. He has also been an entrepreneur, heading a real estate development company and co-founding a multinational enterprise marketing American vitamins throughout Europe. Amb. Ritch is a graduate of West Point, and holds a master's degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. |
