SIPA: School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

SIPA Faculty

Jenik Radon
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
jr2218@columbia.edu

Biography:
Jenik Radon is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs since 2002. He is the founder/director of the Eesti and Eurasian Public Service Fellowship, which gives Columbia students the opportunity to intern in Estonia, Georgia and Nepal. At Columbia Radon also established an on-going colloquia on Eurasian Oil and Gas Pipelines and hosts regular conferences on Estonia, Georgia and Nepal. From 2000 to 2002, Radon was a lecturer at Stanford University, where he taught human rights and privatization at its law school and international investment management at its Graduate School of Business. He is a visiting professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research in Mumbai, India, where he teaches the class "Dynamics of Corruption." Presently, Radon is involved in the constitutional peace process in Nepal; and he is a member of the UN Global Compact Academic Initiative taskforce which seeks to have business schools worldwide incorporate the UN's Global Compact's 10 principles into their curriculum and teaching.

In the early '80s, Radon founded Radon and Ishizumi, an international law firm representing international corporations and foreign public entities. Since 1999, Radon is one of two Executors/Trustees of Vetter Pharma, a privately-held German pharmaceutical company, the world leader in the production of aseptic systems. In 1980, Radon co-founded the Afghanistan Relief Committee that supported refugees displaced during the Afghan-Soviet war and freedom for Afghanistan. Heading the legal section of the Polish-U.S. Economic Council during the late '80s, he advised on commercial laws and was an author of Poland's foreign investment laws. Advisor during Estonia's independence struggle, Radon co-authored the country's foreign investment, security, privatization and corporate laws and was an architect of Estonia's privatization program. In 1990 he was the first to officially raise the U.S. flag in Estonia since the 1940 Soviet invasion and was awarded the Medal of Distinction of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce. Radon was Georgia's key foreign advisor and negotiator of the multi-billion dollar oil and gas pipelines from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey (the BTC), featured in the James Bond movie, "The World is Not Enough". In 2000, he was awarded Georgia's highest civilian award, the Order of Honor.

Radon has written numerous articles including "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); "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; "Sovereignty: a Political Emotion, Not a Concept," Stanford Journal of International Law (Vol. 40, 2004); "Permitted Unless Prohibited; The Changed Soviet Mentality" in the Fordham International Law Journal; "The Baltics: The Premier Gateway to the Soviet Union", in Investing in Reform (New York University Press); and "Negotiating and Financing Joint Venture Abroad" in Joint Venturing Abroad, editors N. Lacasse and L. Perret (Wilson & Lafleur Itee). Radon obtained his B.A. from Columbia University, a Master in City Planning from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.