Jenik Radon
Jenik Radon is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs since 2002. He established the series of colloquia on Eurasian Pipelines, which started successfully with the first colloquium on German – Russian gas pipelines at SIPA in April 2006.
In March 2006 Prof. Radon and his team also organized a major conference on Nepal with Nepalese and international experts and public figures. He is the founder and director of the Eesti and Eurasian Fellowship at Columbia University, which, since 1990, gives Columbia students the opportunity to intern with cabinet-level officials in Estonia and Georgia.
From 2000 to 2002, he was a lecturer at Stanford University, where he taught human rights and privatization at its law school and classes on international investment management at the Graduate School of Business. He is also a visiting professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research in Bombay, India.
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.
In 1981 he founded Radon and Ishizumi, an international law firm that specializes in representing international corporations and foreign governments.
In the early 1980s, he created and directed the Afghanistan Relief Committee that supported the refugees displaced during the Afghans' war with the Soviet Union. 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 is 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 is the author of several articles that have appeared in Parker School (Columbia University) Bulletin On Soviet & East European Law, such as, "Soviet Secession Law: The Devil's Circle", and "Romanian Foreign Investment Law May Disappoint”, as well as other publications such as “ ‘Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil’ Spells Complicity,” in Compact Quarterly (Volume 2005, Issue 2), published by the (United Nations) Global Compact; “Sovereignty: a Political Emotion, Not a Concept,” in the Stanford Journal of International Law (Vol. 40, 2004); “Permitted Unless Prohibited; The Changed Soviet Mentality” issued in the Fordham International Law Journal, "The Baltics: The Premier Gateway to the Soviet Union", published in Investing in Reform, New York University Press, and "Negotiating and Financing Joint Venture Abroad" published in Joint Venturing Abroad, éditions N. Lacasse and L. Perret.
Since 1999, Radon is also a member of the two person Executive Committee of Vetter Pharma, a privately-held German company, which is the world’s leader in the independent production of pre-filled aseptic systems.
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Jasmine Henz
Jasmine Henz works as Academic Associate at the law firm of Radon & Ishizumi, New York. In 2007 she was a visiting scholar at Columbia University. Ms. Henz studied law at the Humboldt University, Berlin; the University of Cergy-Pontoise, Paris; and the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, where she received her Master's Degree in law. Her fields of specialization include International Private Law and European Law. She co-organized the Nepal conference at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, in March 2006, as well as the Eurasian Pipeline series at Harriman Institute. She is also the co-author of several of Jenik Radon’s articles, such as “Sleepless, Clueless, Dangerous” in ErgoMed Volume 3/2006); “The New Mantra: ‘Bribers Beware!’” in Journal of Transnational Management (November 2006); “Globalisierung ÷ Ethik = Respekt” (German, in press, 2006).
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