Stuart Beck

His Excellency Mr. Stuart Beck
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Palaun Ambassador to Oceans and Seas
Incumbent
Assumed office August 2013
Leader	Tommy Remengesau
Secretary-General	Ban Ki-Moon
Palaun Ambassador to the United Nations
In office 2003–2010
Succeeded by	H.E. Dr. Caleb Otto
Personal details
Born	Stuart Beck New York, New York
Nationality	American Honorary Palaun
Spouse	Ebiltulik Beck (m. 1983; 4 children)
Alma mater	Harvard University Yale Law School

Stuart Beck is an American law practitioner and a diplomat for Palau. Born in New York City in 1946, he attended Harvard University (AB, 1968) and Yale Law School (JD, 1971). As a lawyer he helped negotiate the Compact of Free Association which established Palau as an independent nation in free association with the United States in 1994. While working with Palau, Beck met his future wife Ebiltulik, a native of Palau, who is the mother of their four children, Emadch, Chip Uchel, Johanna Rois and Sam Demei. For his contributions to Palau, he was granted honorary citizenship. and in 2003 he accepted the post as Palau's first Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He served continuously in this position until 2013. While Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Beck spearheaded United Nations initiatives to stop bottom trawling and shark finning, among others. He founded Ambassadors for Responsibility on Climate Change (ARC) and successfully advanced a resolution to treat climate change as a security issue, prompting a Security Council debate on the topic. In August, 2013, he was appointed by President Tommy Remengesau as Palau's first Ambassador to the Oceans and Seas, with a mandate to initiate essential change at the international level for protection of the marine environments of the world. He relinquised his post as Permanent Representative to the United Nations at that time. In July, 2013, the Palau National Congress adopted joint resolution 9-15 "Honoring and commending Mr. Stuart Beck, the first and current Ambassador of the Republic of Palau for his outstanding public service to the Republic of Palau". Ambassador Beck was a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School in 2012, co-teaching a course entitled "Climate Change and the International Court of Justice". He is the Chairman of the Sustainable Oceans Alliance, dedicated to the adoption by the General Assembly of a Sustainable Development Goal on Oceans. He currently lives in Bronxville, New York.