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  1. A conversation about the E.U. with Rockwell Schnabel
    A conversation about the E.U. with Rockwell Schnabel

    with Rockwell Schnabel on Dec 8, 2003

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Rockwell Schnabel is an American Ambassador. He was the U.S. Representative to the European Union from 2001 to 2005, and was confirmed by the Senate on September 26, 2001. Schnabel accepted his first government post, when former President Ronald Reagan named him U.S. ambassador to Finland. He has also served at the Department of Commerce as Deputy Secretary and then as Acting Secretary of Commerce in the administration of George Bush Sr.

Schnabel and his wife founded the Schnabel Foundation to support health, education and the arts. He also founded and was first chairman of the LA Travel and Tourism Education Foundation.

Schnabel, who was a member of the Los Angeles Olympic Committee and envoy to The Netherlands for the 1984 Olympic Games, received a Medal of Honor from The Netherlands Olympic Committee and a Gold Medal from the Dutch government. He has also received the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award, the department’s highest honor.

Source - The United States Mission to the European Union http://useu.usmission.gov/About_The_Ambassador/Schnabel/default.asp