Fred Radewagen

Fred Radewagen is a Washington-based, Pacific intergovernmental and international affairs adviser and strategic planner who over the years has counseled or represented numerous Pacific Island governments and organizations including the governor of American Samoa, the prime minister of the Cook Islands, the president of Nauru, the government of the Republic of Palau, the governor of Guam on his Pacific Visibility Program, the CNMI Resident Representative to the U.S. and the governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.  He also has served as Washington adviser to the speaker of the Guam Legislature, adviser to the chairman of the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal, as executive director of The Micronesia Institute, and was vice president of the United States-New Zealand Council.  Earlier, he was Washington liaison for the high commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. 

He is a member of the Georgetown University Center for Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Studies Board of Advisors and is senior adviser for Pacific Missions for Flying Doctors of America with whom he has participated in medical missions to the Marshall Islands and Solomon Islands.  He was a member of the NASPAA 2019 visiting mission to the University of Guam to review accreditation of the Masters of Public Administration program.

Mr. Radewagen has spoken on Pacific issues at numerous academic conferences, has been a guest lecturer at the Northern Marianas' Islands Council for the Humanities, the University of Guam, and the College of the Marshall Islands, and was a lecturer at a Smithsonian Associates Pacific Islands seminar series.  Representing American Samoa, he was on the Western Governors' Conference - Western Governors' Policy Office merger transition team, the Western Governors' Association Staff Advisory Council, the National Governors' Association Committee on International Trade and Foreign Relations Staff Advisory Council, the Pacific Basin Development Council Technical Advisory Committee, and the Pacific Islands Development Program officials committee.  He was advisor to the U.S. delegation to the Post-Forum Dialogue in 1991, to the American Samoa delegation to the Rio de Janeiro "Earth Summit" in 1992 and to the Guam delegation to the Third Summit of the Council of Micronesian Chief Executives in Kiribati in 1998.  He also has represented American Samoa on the U.N. Alliance of Small Island States.

A member of the host committee of the 22nd South Pacific Conference, Mr. Radewagen also participated in the 23rd, 24th, 26th, 29th and 31st conferences, where he also served on SPC's Committee of Representatives of Governments and Administrations.  He took part in Niue’s 10th anniversary of self-government celebration where he attended Sir Robert Rex's investiture and represented American Samoa at the dedication of the Papua New Guinea Parliament in 1984.  He also was advisor to the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Decolonization Committee in 1982-83 and served as consultant to the secretariat of the Second Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders in Rarotonga in 1985. 

Publisher of The Washington Pacific Report, an internationally circulated current events newsletter from 1982 to 1998, Mr. Radewagen also has been a contributor to the Political Handbook of the World and has written for the Pacific World Directory, the Pacific Business Guide and the Asia & Pacific Review.  He also has been a contributing editor to Defense & Foreign Affairs Handbook.  He has been an accredited correspondent at the departments of State and Defense and was a member of the Washington Roundtable for the Asia-Pacific Press, the Newsletter Association, the Fiji Press Club, and the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA).  He was advisor to the host committee of the 1990 PINA conference and was a participant in the 1987, 1989 and 1991 annual conferences.   

In government, Mr. Radewagen held several U.S. Department of the Interior positions concerned with U.S. Pacific and Caribbean Island affairs.  He also was Interior's representative on the federal regional council task force on Virgin Islands issues, a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Trusteeship Council and a member of the TTPI High Commissioner's Development Coordinating Committee.  He also served on the first U.S. negotiating team for Micronesian future political status.  As staff coordinator (chief of staff) for territorial affairs, he was the second-ranking U.S. official in the federal agency charged with responsibility for federal policy towards the U.S. territories and the Trust Territory.  During his Interior years, Mr. Radewagen periodically served as an advance representative for The White House and was territorial governors' coordinator for the 1973 Presidential Inauguration.

Mr. Radewagen received a bachelor of arts degree from Northwestern University in 1966 with a concentration in diplomatic history and went on to earn a Master of Science in Foreign Service degree from Georgetown University in 1968 with a concentration in international politics.  He was awarded a certificate for participation in the Pacific Islands Area Seminar at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1982.

His past and current memberships and activities include the National Eagle Scout Association (life member), the Circumnavigators Club, American Mensa, and Westminster Presbyterian Church.  A charter member of the American Samoa Society of Washington, D.C., he also is a member of both the Guam Society of America and the Hawaii State Society of Washington, D.C.  He was a member of the Ponape Agriculture and Trade School (PATS) Advisory Council for the school's 25th anniversary celebration (1987) and was project manager for the establishment of Georgetown's Peter Tali Coleman Lecture series on Pacific Public Policy.

A member of the American Council of Young Political Leaders Alumni Council, Mr. Radewagen was selected as a delegate to the Council's foreign policy conferences from 1983-1992 and was a member of the ACYPL 1984 delegation to the People's Republic of China.  In 2000, he led an ACYPL delegation to observe presidential elections in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Georgia and was a member of the International Republican Institute's observer team for Bangladesh's 2008-09 parliamentary elections. He has traveled extensively throughout the world, having visited 72 countries and dependencies, the 50 states and all the U.S. territories.  These totals include visits to 19 of the 21 major Pacific Island groups.  His biography has appeared in numerous reference books, including Marquis' Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in American Politics.

Mr. Radewagen and his wife, the former Amata Catherine Coleman, are the parents of three adult children and have two grandchildren.

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