John Ruggie

John Ruggie
Professor John Ruggie
Born	John Gerard Ruggie (1944-10-18) 18 October 1944 (age 72) Graz, Austria
Alma mater	McMaster University and University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Professor of Political Science

John Gerard Ruggie (born October 18, 1944) is the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is also an Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.

Ruggie was born in Graz, Austria, son of Josef and Margaret Ruggie. He was raised in Toronto, Canada.

Ruggie has a BA in politics and history from McMaster University in Canada.

He married Mary Zacharuk in 1965, with whom he has one son.

He moved to the United States in 1967 to attend graduate school. He earned a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ruggie taught for many years at Columbia University, eventually becoming Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs. He has also taught at the University of California's Berkeley and San Diego campuses and directed the UC system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

He has twice served as a senior official in the United Nations. From 1997 to 2001, he served as United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Planning, a post created specifically for him by then Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He was one of the principal architects of the United Nations Global Compact. In 2005, he was appointed as the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Business and Human Rights. He developed a set of principles, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which have been adopted by multiple international agencies.