Jenik Radon
Jenik Radon is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and is a recipient of SIPA's "Top Five" teaching award for his work during the spring 2010 semester. He established the series of colloquia on Eurasian Pipelines, which started with the colloquium on German – Russian gas pipelines at in 2006.
He is the founder and director of the Eesti and Eurasian Fellowship at Columbia University, which, gives Columbia students and other institutions the opportunity to intern in emerging nations such as Cambodia, Ecuador, Estonia, Georgia, India, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Philippines and Uganda. Radon has also been a lecturer at Stanford University, where he taught human rights, privatization and access to medicine at its Law School and classes on international investment management at the Graduate School of Business. He has also been a visiting professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research in Mumbai, India. He regularly teaches at Monterrey Tech, Queretaro, Mexico, which named him Distinguished University Professor. Radon was the Ashton J. and Virginia Graham O’Donnell Visiting Professor/Educator at Whitman College.
In 1981 he founded Radon and Ishizumi, an international law firm that specializes in representing international corporations and foreign governments and civil society. In 1980, Radon co-founded the Afghanistan Relief Committee that sought freedom for Afghanistan and supported refugees displaced during the Afghan-Soviet war. Head of the legal section of the Polish-U.S. Economic Council from 1986, and then Vice-Chairman, he advised on commercial laws and participated in the drafting of Poland foreign investment laws that laid the foundation for the transition to a free market economy. Advisor during Estonia's independence struggle, Radon co-authored the country's foreign investment law and its security, privatization and corporate laws. He had the honor of being the first to raise the U.S. flag in Estonia since the Soviet invasion in 1940 with the inauguration of the U.S.-Estonian Chamber of Commerce, when Estonia was still a Soviet state. He served as American Chair of the Chamber and was awarded the Medal of Distinction of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce. Radon participated in the constitutional peace process in Nepal and served as a drafter of the interim peace constitution, which granted citizenship to millions of stateless people in the Terai region, among other things.
Radon was the key foreign advisor and negotiator for Georgia of the multi-billion dollar oil and gas pipelines from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey and the West, featured in the James Bond movie, “The World is Not Enough”. In 2000, he became one of the first foreigners to be awarded the Order of Honor of Georgia, the highest civilian award.
Radon presently advises public authorities and civil society in number of developing nations around the world, including Cambodia, Ecuador, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal and Uganda, particularly in respect of sustainable natural resource development, as well as Afghanistan in respect of the prospective multi-nation TAPI gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan to Pakistan to India
Radon has lectured in over 40 nations, including Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Kazakhstan, Laos, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal and Nigeria. He has written numerous articles, including Resolving conflicts of interest in state-owned enterprises, International Social Science Journal (UNESCO); Staatsfonds vor den Toren (Sovereign Wealth Funds Before the [Trojan] Gates), Wirtschaft (Economy) section, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ); Getting Human Rights Right, Stanford Social Innovation Journal (December, 2007); How To Negotiate Your Oil Agreement, in Escaping the Resource Curse, ed. Macartan Humphreys, Jeffrey Sachs and Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University Press, June 2007); Ethics in Business (MBA) Education - A New Must, International Management Development Research Yearbook, Technology, Structure, Environment, And Strategy Interfaces In A Changing Global Business Arena (June 2006); Sleepless, Clueless, Dangerous, in Ergo-Med (Haefer Verlag, Germany, March 2006); The New Mantra: Bribers Beware! The Journal for Transnational Management (Vol. 11, No. 4, 2006); Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil Spells Complicity, (UN) Compact Quarterly (Volume 2005, Issue 2), published by the (United Nations) Global Compact. and "Negotiating and Financing Joint Venture Abroad" published in Joint Venturing Abroad, éditions N. Lacasse and L. Perret.
Radon obtained his B.A. from Columbia University in 1967, as well as a Master in City Planning from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1971.
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