Andy Sundberg, Fellow and Secretary of the Overseas American Academy, in Geneva, Switzerland, was born in New Jersey, grew up in a military family, finished grammar school in Japan, and high school in Germany. He is a 1962 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and was a 1963 Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England where he studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
He served as a U.S. Naval Officer in Cuba during the Quarantine in 1962, and in the north of the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War in 1967-68. Since moving to Geneva, Switzerland, in 1968, he has been a consultant helping corporations, governments and international organizations evaluate investment and political opportunities and make other important decisions in many countries of the world.
He is a life member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, a member of the Board of the Millennium Institute in Washington, and the Marine Resources Development Foundation in Key Largo, Florida.
He was the founder of the American Children’s Citizens Rights League in Geneva in 1977, and American Citizens Abroad in 1978 (an organization that now has members in more than 90 countries). He helped set up the local branches of both the U.S. Democratic and Republican parties in Switzerland, and then served as the worldwide chairman of Democrats Abroad from 1981-1985, and as a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1981-1989. In the early 1980s, while living in Geneva, he flew regularly to Washington where he served on the staff of the Chief Deputy Majority Whip in the U.S. House of Representatives.
In 1988 he ran as a favorite son presidential candidate in the worldwide overseas Democratic Party primary election and came in third, having won the vote in more than five countries.
He has been active with Liberal International (an association of more than 100 Liberal Democratic Parties in more than sixty countries) since 1984, and was named Vice Chairman of the LI Human Rights Committee in 2009. He has participated at meetings of the Committee on Migration of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for more than a decade.
1941 - 2012
He served as a U.S. Naval Officer in Cuba during the Quarantine in 1962, and in the north of the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War in 1967-68. Since moving to Geneva, Switzerland, in 1968, he has been a consultant helping corporations, governments and international organizations evaluate investment and political opportunities and make other important decisions in many countries of the world.
He is a life member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, a member of the Board of the Millennium Institute in Washington, and the Marine Resources Development Foundation in Key Largo, Florida.
He was the founder of the American Children’s Citizens Rights League in Geneva in 1977, and American Citizens Abroad in 1978 (an organization that now has members in more than 90 countries). He helped set up the local branches of both the U.S. Democratic and Republican parties in Switzerland, and then served as the worldwide chairman of Democrats Abroad from 1981-1985, and as a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1981-1989. In the early 1980s, while living in Geneva, he flew regularly to Washington where he served on the staff of the Chief Deputy Majority Whip in the U.S. House of Representatives.
In 1988 he ran as a favorite son presidential candidate in the worldwide overseas Democratic Party primary election and came in third, having won the vote in more than five countries.
He has been active with Liberal International (an association of more than 100 Liberal Democratic Parties in more than sixty countries) since 1984, and was named Vice Chairman of the LI Human Rights Committee in 2009. He has participated at meetings of the Committee on Migration of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for more than a decade.
1941 - 2012
