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Vladimir Kabes
AFoCR Director, Dr. Vladimir Kabes was born and raised in Prague. He started his career in the aircraft and automobile industry in Czechoslovakia at AERO Prague, where he had, successively, responsibilities for social affairs, labor relations, and automobile sales.
After leaving this post, he served as press secretary in the Czechoslovak Parliament and later joined Foote, Cone & Belding, a London-based public relations firm, as the Prague representative for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.
Dr. Kabes came to Washington, D.C. in 1950 and became a U.S. citizen in 1956. He acted as coordinator of an East-European legal research project at the Library of Congress. Subsequently, he joined the International Commission of Jurists, where he served first as its United Nations representative in New York and, from 1959 to 1969, as Senior Legal Officer and later Executive Secretary in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1966-69, he was co-President of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) at UN-ECOSOC.
In 1963-64, Dr. Kabes was consultant on constitutional problems to the Prime Minister of Zaire in Kinshasa. In 1969, he sat up and managed the Swiss branch of Commerce Clearing House, the Chicago-based law publishers.
In 1972, Dr. Kabes became Secretary General (CEO) of the International Touring Alliance in Geneva, a world-wide association of automobile and touring clubs with regulatory functions on international customs documents for motorists.
Upon retirement in 1983, Dr. Kabes returned to Washington, D.C. to establish his own international consulting practice. He currently also serves as a representative of NGO’s accredited to the UN Economic and Social Council in New York.
In 1990, Dr. Kabes was one of distinguished Czech and Slovak personalities living abroad and selected by President Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia to serve on his Board of Consultants. He is presently a member of the Boards of Foundation Bohemiae in Prague, of the Czech and Slovak Solidarity Council and of the American Friends of the Czech Republic, both in Washington, D.C.
