Andy Sundberg

Andrew P. Sundberg
Andy Sundberg as a presidential candidate
Born	January 6, 1941 Hackensack NJ, USA
Died	August 30, 2012 Geneva, Switzerland
Nationality	USA
Occupation	entrepreneur
Known for	setting up organizations to represent interests of Americans abroad and running for President of the United States from overseas

Andrew Peter (Andy) Sundberg (January 6, 1941 – August 30, 2012) was an advocate for defending the rights of Americans living outside of the United States. He lived in the United States only a small portion of his life.

Sundberg was born in Hackensack, New Jersey to Edward Bernard Sundberg and Ruth Wildbush Sundberg, the second of three children. His father was an engineer who was called back into the Air Force during the Korean War, and the family was often stationed abroad. Sundberg attended junior high school in Tajikawa, Japan and high school in Wiesbaden, Germany, before the family returned to live in Chicago. He was winner of a scholarship in the National Merit Scholarship Program. Sundberg was a 1962 graduate in engineering from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. At Navy he was on the GE College Bowl team beating Army in 1960, and he captained the team in 1961. While at Annapolis, Sundberg was a founder of the Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference (NAVFAC).

After graduation from the Naval Academy, he won a Rhodes Scholarship (1963) for studies at Oxford University, where he obtained a master's degree in politics, philosophy and economics.

Andy Sundberg served as a naval officer on board U.S. combat ships in Cuban waters during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War in 1967-68, until he was diagnosed with a career-ending medical condition.

In 1968, after his retirement from the military, Sundberg and his wife moved to Geneva, Switzerland, which became their permanent home. After working briefly at the Battelle Institute in Geneva, he founded an international business consultancy which provided analysis to clients in many different economic sectors. He carried out a wide range of individual and multi-client studies and assignments in many different industries for more than fifty major corporations. Among others, he served as a consultant to the African Development Bank, the International Labor Organization, the United Nations Center for Science and Technology for Development (in North America, Europe, Japan, and Vietnam), the Foreign Aid Ministry of West Germany (in Brazil, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Jordan), and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (in Russia and the other republics of the former Soviet Union) A lifelong entrepreneur, he also launched and brought to market one of the first internet service providers in the Geneva area in the early 1990s.