Amb Stuart Eizenstat

Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat has held senior positions in six U.S. administrations, including Chief White House Domestic Policy Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration. He currently chairs the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. His extraordinary record of accomplishments includes negotiating major agreements with Switzerland, Germany, Austria and France, among other countries, covering restitution and reparations to Holocaust survivors. Ambassador Eizenstat was the principal negotiator of the 1998 Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art with 44 countries, which continues to be a basis for recovery and compensation for Nazi-looted art. Since 2009, he has served as pro bono Special Negotiator for the Jewish Claims Conference in negotiations with the German government, obtaining billions of dollars of benefits for needy Holocaust survivors. He is the author of several books, including Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor and the Unfinished Business of World War II (Public Affairs, 2003) and most recently, The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements That Changed the World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024).