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Jenik Radon has been an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs since 2002. He is also the founder and director of the Eesti and Eurasian Fellowship at Columbia University which since 1990 gives Columbia students the opportunity to intern with cabinet level officials in Estonia and Georgia.

From 2000 to 2002, Professor Radon was a lecturer at Stanford University. He is also a visiting professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research in Bombay, India. Additionally, he teaches a course entitled "The Dynamics of Corruption" at the Indira Gandhi Institute.

In 1981 he founded Radon and Ishizumi, an international law firm that specializes in representing international corporations and foreign governments. Professor Radon practices law, represents governments and manages Vetter Pharma, a pharmaceutical company with 1,800 employees.

Professor Radon is the key foreign advisor and negotiator for Georgia of the multibillion dollar oil and gas pipelines from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey and the West, featured in the James Bond movie, The World is Not Enough. In 2000, he became one of the first foreigners to be awarded the Order of Honor of Georgia, the highest civilian award. Professor Radon is also the author of several articles.

Professor Radon obtained his BA from Columbia University in 1967, as well as a master in city planning from the University of California, Berkeley and a JD from Stanford Law School in 1971.