Stuart Beck | |
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Palauan Ambassador to Oceans and Seas | |
In office August 2013 – February 29, 2016 | |
Leader | Tommy Remengesau |
Secretary-General | Ban Ki-moon |
Palauan Ambassador to the United Nations | |
In office 2003–2013 | |
Succeeded by | Caleb T. O. Otto |
Personal details | |
Born | Stuart Jay Beck December 23, 1946 Manhattan, New York, USA |
Died | February 29, 2016 (aged 69) Manhattan, New York |
Nationality | American honorary citizenship of Palau |
Spouse | Ebiltulik Beck (m. 1983; 4 children) |
Alma mater | Harvard University Yale Law School |
Stuart Jay Beck (December 23, 1946 – February 29, 2016) was an American law practitioner and a diplomat for Palau. As a lawyer he helped negotiate the Compact of Free Association, which established Palau as an independent nation in free association with the United States in 1994. For his contributions to Palau, he was granted honorary citizenship.[1]
In 2003, he accepted the post for Palau's first Permanent Representative to the United Nations.[2] He served continuously in this position until 2013, at which time he was appointed as Palau's first ever United Nations Ambassador for Oceans and Seas. In addition to that position, Beck co-chaired with Amir Dossal the Sustainable Oceans Alliance, an organization dedicated to the adoption by the General Assembly of a Sustainable Development Goal on Oceans.