2008 Woodie Awards
Holt Spotlight Interview: Professor of Political Science, Ambassador Ulric Haynes, Jr.
Jean Bernard Chery
Issue date: 10/7/05 Section: Holt News
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Ambassador Haynes, a New Yorker, earned this title for serving his country as the number one diplomat in Algeria from 1977 to 1981. He was appointed to this post by President Jimmy Carter. If you think like I used to think of US ambassadorial positions-just a political post used by the party in power to pay its dues to big campaign contributors, meaning, appointees are No-brainers-rethink your view of them. Ambassador Haynes credential will provide you with a whole different view of US ambassadors.
Ambassador Haynes earned his BA on political science from Amherst College and his JD (Juris Doctorate) from the Yale University Law School, and he completed the Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. He holds honorary doctorates from Indiana University, Butler University, John Jay College, Fisk University, Alabama State University and Mercy College. He has an extraordinary record in the academia, business, and government.
In the academia, he was president of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. He held positions of Executive Dean of the International Relations and Dean of the Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University. He taught at the Harvard Business School and lectured at many other prestigious institutions: Stanford Business School, Amherst College, Ball State University, and so on. Currently, he is teaching US foreign policy at the Rollins Hamilton Holt School and University of Central Florida.
In the business world, his experience is astonishing. From 1981 to 1988, he served as Vice President of International Business Planning for the Cummins Engine Co., Inc., and Vice President for the Mid East and Africa at Cummins from 1974 to1977. He has been a Director of HSBC Bank USA, ABC Broadcasting Companies, Rohm & Haas Co., Environmental Products Corp., and he was on the Boards of Directors of ING ReliaStar Insurance Company of New York. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Pall Corporation.
In the political arena, as already mentioned, Ambassador Haynes served as the US Ambassador to Algeria under President Jimmy Carter and was a member of the National Security Council Staff in 1965 and 1966 during Lyndon Johnson administration. He was also the State Department's officer-in-charge of Southwest Africa and High Commission Territories in the mid-sixties. Ambassador Haynes is a member of the Board of the Council of American Ambassadors and as wall as the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Diplomacy.