Jane Thery is the Chief for Institutional Relations of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington , DC . She manages relations with the US Congress, inter-governmental organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank, universities and "think tanks" for the OAS.
Before taking on these responsibilities in 2006, she was the Principal Specialist of the OAS Summits of the Americas Secretariat. The Secretariat is charged with monitoring the implementation of mandates from the Summits of the Americas and preparing for future Summits. She was responsible for the Summit mandate areas of: Trade, Investment and Financial Stability; Corporate Social Responsibility; Employment; Growth with Equity; and Infrastructure and Standards for the 2004 Summit in Monterrey, Mexico and the 2005 Summit in Mar del Plata, Argentina. From 1995 to 2001, Ms. Thery was Principal Specialist in the Trade Unit of the OAS where she was actively involved in providing technical support to the negotiations for a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
Previous to joining the Trade Unit, Ms. Thery held senior positions with the Institute for International Economics, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, and the University of Maryland 's School of Public Affairs . She began her career in Lima, Peru as the Ford Foundation's International Affairs Program Officer for the Andean Region and Southern Cone from 1982-1985.
Ms. Thery has consulted for the Inter-American Development Bank, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and Odebrecht Company of Brazil , among other organizations, and has worked in over 50 countries, primarily in the developing world. She speaks frequently on US - Latin American economic and foreign policy issues, trade policy and development, with recent lectures at the US Foreign Service Institute, the National Defense University and Yale University .
Ms. Thery holds an MA in international economics from Yale University , a BA in international relations from Duke University and is fluent in Spanish.
Chief,
Institutional Relations
Department of External Relations
Organization of American States
17 th and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington , DC 20006
Tel: 202-458-3602
Fax: 202-458-6319
Email: jthery@oas.org
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Boris Kozolchyk
The Evo DeConcini Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona and President and Director of the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade. Prior to the University of Arizona, he was on the faculty of Southern Methodist University School of Law (1960-1964) and has since been a visiting professor at University of Costa Rica School of Law; National University of Chile; National University of Mexico; University of Aix en Provence, France; and LSU Law School, where he is also a member of the Advisory Board to the LSU Hemispheric Trade Program. Dr. Kozolchyk served as Director of the Law Reform Project, USAID, San José, Costa Rica, from 1967-1969 and as Resident Consultant for the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, from 1964-1967. Among other positions, he served as United States Delegate to the United Nations Commission on Uniform Trade Law (UNCITRAL) for Standby Letters of Credit and Bank Guarantee Convention 1989-1994. He is a member of the American Law Institute. He holds a Doctorate in Civil Law from the University of Havana; a Diplôme de Droit Compare from Faculté International de Droit Compare, Luxembourg; an LL.B. from the University of Miami School of Law; and his S.J.D., LL.M. from the University of Michigan School of Law. His publications include:
Transparency and Truth in Latin American Banking (co-editor, with Mina Goldberg, Billie Kozolchyk, & Timothy Baker, and author of Foreword xxi) (2001);
Commercial Letters of Credit in the Americas; A Comparative Study of Contemporary Commercial Transactions, Boris Kozolchyk (1966);
La Contratación Comercial en el Derecho Comparado (2005-2006);
United States Law of Trade and Investment (Boris Kozolchyk and John F. Molloy eds.) (4 volumes) Fred B. Rothman publications (2001);
Toward Seamless Borders (Boris Kozolchyk, editor) National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade (1993).
President
National Law Center for
Inter-American Free Trade
440 North Bonita Avenue
Tucson, Arizona 85745
Tel: (520) 622-1200
Fax: (520) 621-9140
Email: b.kozolchyk@worldnet.att.net
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