Andy Sundberg was born in New Jersey in 1941, finished grammar school in Japan, and high school in Germany. He is a 1962 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and 1963 Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England where he earned a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He served as a naval officer on board U.S. combat ships in Cuban waters during the Cuban Quarantine and in the north of the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. Since moving to Geneva, Switzerland, in 1968, he has been a consultant helping major corporations, governments and international organizations evaluate investments opportunities and make other important decisions in many countries of the world. He is a life member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, a member of the Board of the Millennium Institute in Washington, and the Marine Resources Development Foundation in Key Largo, Florida. He was the founder of the American Children’s Citizens Rights League in Geneva in 1977, and American Citizens Abroad in 1978 (an organization that now has members in more than 90 countries). He helped set up the local branches of both the U.S. Democratic and Republican parties in Switzerland and served as the worldwide chairman of Democrats Abroad from 1981-1985, and as a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1981-1989. In the early 1980s, while still living in Geneva, he served on the staff of the Chief Deputy Majority Whip in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1988 he ran as a favorite son presidential candidate in the worldwide overseas Democratic Party primary election and came in third, having won the vote in more than five countries. He has been active with Liberal International (an association of Liberal Democratic Parties in more than sixty countries) since 1984, and has participated at meetings of the Committee on Migration of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for more than a decade. He is currently creating new micro-finance projects in Africa in partnerships with African diaspora groups living in Europe. Andy is married and has two daughters and one grand-daughter, all living in Geneva.

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