Robert Olson

Robert K Olson was a member of the original committee for a Community of the Democracies, and brings to CCD many contacts in the upper Midwest and a broad international background. As a career officer in the Foreign Service, he had political/economic assignments in Beirut, Libya, Central America, Paris, Geneva, Ottawa and Rome, in Civil Operations (CORDS) in Vietnam, and in UN affairs with the State Department. He has since devoted himself to international education at the Universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota as Executive Director of the Institute of World Affairs at UW-Milwaukee. He has been a regular contributor to the Foreign Service Journal, American-Arab Affairs, NATO Review, Washington Report and other journals and authored books on US foreign Policy, Europe and the Arab/Israel Peace Process (sponsored by the US institute of Peace). Mr. Olson has degrees in international relations from Carleton College, the Graduate School in International Studies (University of Denver) and Oxford.