William Vanden Heuvel/Definition

senior partner in the Manhattan-based law firm, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan; co-chairman of the Council of American Ambassadors and President of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI); signatory of "Beyond Guantanamo"; Deputy U.S. Ambassador, United Nations, 1979-1981 and United Nations European Office, 1977-1979; daughter, Katrina vanden Heuvel, is editor of The Nation.