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Speaker's Biography:
Abraham Sofaer George P. Shultz Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy and National Security Affairs, Hoover Institution
Abraham Sofaer is the George P. Schultz Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and National Security Affairs at the Hoover Institution. Sofaer has been a prosecutor, legal educator, judge, government official and attorney in private practice. He was assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York. From 1969 to 1979, Sofaer was a professor of law at Columbia University School of Law, during which time he wrote War, Foreign Affairs and Constitutional Power. Sofaer was a New York state administrative judge and a U.S. district judge in the Southern District of New York, where he served until 1985. He handled several high-profile cases, including the libel action against Time magazine by Israeli general Ariel Sharon. Sofaer served as a legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State from 1985 to 1990. He was principal negotiator in various interstate matters that were successfully resolved, including the dispute between Egypt and Israel over Taba and the claim against Iraq for its attack on the USS Stark. He received the Distinguished Service Award in 1989, the highest state department award given to a non-civil servant. Sofaer earned his bachelor′s in history at Yeshiva College, his LL.B. at New York University School of Law, and was awarded an LL.D., honoris causa by Yeshiva University.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.
