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Biography of Frank E. Loy Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs and Head of the U.S. Delegation, COP-5 Released by the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, October 1999

Frank E. Loy was confirmed as Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs in October 1998. He is responsible for policy regarding international environment and science; population and refugees; the promotion of democracy and human rights, including women’s, religious and labor rights; and counternarcotics and international law enforcement.

Under Secretary Loy has twice previously served in the Department of State. From 1980 to 1981, he was Director of the Department’s Bureau of Refugee Programs, with the personal rank of Ambassador. From 1965 to 1970, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs. In that role he negotiated numerous bilateral and multilateral air transport, shipping and telecommunications agreements. He chaired United States delegations to meetings of international organizations such as the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO), and the OECD Maritime Committee. He served as Vice-Chair of the United States delegation to the multinational negotiations that successfully created the present structure of INTELSAT, the organization that operates the space segments of the international communications network.

More recently, Mr. Loy served as Chairman of the 1994 International Conference of Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, as Co-Chair of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee that advises the United States Trade Representative and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and as a member of the United States Delegation to the first ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization.

Under Secretary Loy has also had considerable experience in the private sector. He spent the years from 1974 to 1979 in the successful effort to bring the Penn Central Transportation Company (PCTC) out of bankruptcy. He served as President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of The Penn Central Corporation, the New York Stock Exchange-listed successor to PCTC. The successor company was built upon the non-railroad businesses of PCTC, including, among others, an oil pipeline, an oil refinery, the operator of the Six Flags theme parks, and significant land, resort and hotel properties in Florida and New York City. Mr. Loy earlier served as Senior Vice President for International Affairs of Pan American World Airways, and as a corporation lawyer with O'Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles.

From 1981 to 1995 Mr. Loy served as President of The German Marshall Fund of the United States, an American foundation with an annual budget of over $10 million and a capital fund of about $200 million. It is the only American foundation concentrating exclusively on issues affecting both Europe and the United States, particularly in the fields of economics, politics and the environment. During Mr. Loy’s tenure, the German Marshall Fund expanded its activities into Eastern Europe, following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Mr. Loy has been active on the Boards of Trustees of several non-profit organizations, including terms as chairman of the Environmental Defense Fund, the League of Conservation Voters, the Washington Ballet, Goddard College, Vermont, the Foundation for a Civil Society, and Friends of Goethe International. He has served as a member of numerous other non-profit boards, including the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, the Institute for International Economics, the Henry L. Stimson Center, Population Services International, Pocantico Advisory Committee, Business Council on International Understanding, Resources for the Future, and Friends of Dresden.

Mr. Loy is an inactive member of the Bar of the District of Columbia and former member of the Bar of the State of California. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the American Council on Germany. Educated in Germany, Italy and Switzerland in his early years, Mr. Loy received his B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles and L.L.B. from Harvard Law School. He is married to Dale Haven Loy, a painter, and father of Lisel Loy of Washington, D.C. and Eric Loy of Los Angeles, California.

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