Stuart Eizenstat is senior counsel at Covington & Burling’s. He is also special advisor to the U.S. secretary of state on Holocaust issues, a position he’s held in three previous administrations, a member of the defense secretary’s policy board and chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Eizenstat’s public service in six U.S. administrations also includes deputy treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, when he was also undersecretary of state for economic, business and agricultural affairs; undersecretary of commerce for international trade and U.S. ambassador to the European Union. He was chief domestic policy adviser to President Carter a staff member for President Johnson. Eizenstat authored “President Carter: The White House Years” and “Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II.” He has received awards from the governments of France (Legion of Honor), Germany, Austria, Israel and Belgium, as well as several from the U.S.
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