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Frank E. Loy (born December 25, 1928) is an American diplomat, business and nonprofit executive, and attorney. He is best known for serving as United States
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from November 2, 1998, to January 20, 2001, under President
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and trade on
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agricultural products. He has been senior vice president for international affairs at
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, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, president of the Penn Central Corporation, and an attorney with
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Early and personal life

Frank E. Loy was born on December 25, 1928, in
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, Germany. Raised in
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,
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and
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in his early years, Loy went to public schools in
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from the age of 10. He earned a B.A. degree at the
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and an LL.B. at
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. Following law school, he served for 21 months in the
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. He lives in
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, with his wife, Dale Haven Loy, a painter. They have two children and four grandchildren.


Private career

Loy began his career practicing corporate law in Los Angeles with the firm of O'Melveny & Myers. From 1970–1973 he served as Senior Vice President for International and Regulatory Affairs of
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. He spent the years 1974 to 1979 as a partner in the turnaround firm that successfully brought the
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out of bankruptcy. It was then the largest industrial bankruptcy in American history. In that role he served as president of the subsidiary that operated all the non-railroad businesses of the bankrupt – including an
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, the
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theme parks, and the Arvida Corp., a Florida land and resort development company. Loy also oversaw operations of Penn Central's New York hotels, the Roosevelt, the Biltmore, the Barclay (now the Intercontinental), and the Commodore (now the Grand Hyatt), as well as the operations of major investments, such as the Madison square Garden Corporation. When the bankruptcy terminated, he became president of the successor company, the Penn Central Corporation, listed on the
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Government service

Loy's first government role was as Special Assistant to the Administrator of the
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and director of that agency's Office of Policy Development, the FAA's economic analysis and planning shop. He served in the Department of State under four administrations, nominated the last three times by the Presidents Carter, Clinton and Obama. From 1965-70 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs. In that role he negotiated numerous international bilateral air transport agreements, represented the U.S. at meetings of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and the International Maritime Organization (IMCO), and was vice-chair of the U.S. delegation to the multinational negotiations that successfully created the present structure of
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, the organization that operates the space segments of the international communications network. From 1980-81 he was Director of the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, with the personal rank of Ambassador. From 1998 to 2001 he was Under Secretary for Global Affairs. His portfolio included human rights, the promotion of democracy, international criminal activity and narcotics, refugees and population affairs, and environmental matters. He served as chief U.S negotiator for climate change. In 2011 he served as Deputy U.S Representative to the UN General Assembl


Nonprofit work

From 1981-95, Loy was president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, an American institution whose original capital was a gift from the German government as memorial to the Marshall Plan. It concentrated exclusively on issues affecting both Europe and the U.S., particularly in the fields of economics, politics and the environment. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, GMF concentrated the bulk of its resources on promoting democratic institutions (such as an independent press, a functioning legislature, effective political parties, an independent judiciary, a civil society of non-governmental institutions, etc.) in former Soviet-bloc Eastern European countries. He served in 1994 as Chair of the Conference of Parties of the
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(CITIES), in which over 1,000 delegates from more than 120 countries and over 500 observers participated. In 1996, Loy was a Visiting Lecturer at the Yale Law School, teaching a course in international environmental law and policy. Loy has chaired numerous boards of directors of non-profit organizations, particularly in the field of environment, climate change and family planning. These boards include Population Services International (PSI), ecoAmerica, Round Table on Environmental Medicine and Health of the National Academy of Medicine, Environmental Defense Fund, Resources For The Future, and The Washington Balle

His prior boards also include The Foundation for A Civil Society (chair), which promoted democratic development in Central and Eastern Europe; the Budapest-based Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, to which he was appointed in 1990 by President
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, the
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, and the Foundation for a Civil Society, which has conducted programs promoting democratic institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly Czechia and Slovakia. Loy was a founding board member of the Climate Speakers Network, which was subsequently absorbed into the Climate Reality Project.


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Earth Focus Video Interviews with Frank Loy
stored at the
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Essay by Loy
recommending a course of action for European diplomacy with respect to American environmental policy, written in 2006. {{DEFAULTSORT:Loy, Frank E. 1928 births Living people American business executives American lawyers Clinton administration personnel Harvard Law School alumni United States Department of State officials University of California, Los Angeles alumni