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Rita Eleanor Hauser (born July 12, 1934) is an international lawyer known for persuading Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization to renounce violence in 1988. She also served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights from 1969 to 1972. George W. Bush appointed her to the President's Intelligence Advisory Board in 2001, serving through 2004, and she was appointed again by Barack Obama in 2009. She was a Senior Partner for more than 20 years at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in New York.

Hauser chairs the International Peace Institute and is Chair of the Advisory Board of the International Crisis Group, was elected in 2007 to the Board of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, , chairs the American Ditchley Foundation, has served as a director of the RAND Corporation and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and is currently a Director of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts after having been a Director of the New York Philharmonic Society for more than 20 years. She and her husband established the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, and she is Co-Chair of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Harvard Law School, and the Hausers also were the principal benefactors of the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University School of Law.

In 1954, Hauser received a B.A. from Hunter College in New York, after which she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for graduate work in France, which eventually resulted in receiving a doctorate in political economy from the University of Strasbourg. She attended Harvard Law School for a while, then received a License en droit from the University of Paris (a rarity for an American), then later received an LL.B. in 1959 from the New York University School of Law.

References

1. ^ Gursky, Ruth. "Rita Eleanor Hauser". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
2. ^ "President Obama Announces Members of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board" (Press release). The White House. December 23, 2009.

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