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Bruce James Oreck (born January 3, 1953) is a former American politician. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Finland from September 2009 to July 2015.




Personal life


Oreck was born to a Jewish family. His father is David Oreck who founded Oreck Corporation.




Education


He holds a Bachelor of Arts from The Johns Hopkins University, and a Juris Doctor from Louisiana State University, as well as a Master of Laws in Taxation from New York University.




Career


He became a partner in a New Orleans law firm representing the oil and gas industry. In 1992 he founded his own firm, Oreck, Crighton, Adams & Chase.
Oreck has authored several books on taxation. He was one of the major contributors to Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008.
After his task as an ambassador ended, he decided to stay in Finland and was invited to teach at Aalto University as an executive in residence at the Aalto Ventures Program and Aalto University School of Business 2015-2022. Oreck's subjects were marketing, customer experience, and storytelling.
Currently, he lives in Mexico.




Reception


Idriss J. Aberkane and Eirin B. Haug at E-International Relations cited Oreck as a "vanguard green diplomat" advocating noopolitik and the Blue Economy:

Here comes green diplomacy, here comes Noopolitik, here comes Oreck's [...] advice of turning a significant piece of the Department of Defense's gargantuan budget into a global investment for peace, prosperity, exemplarity and the Blue Economy rather than for destruction, just as Jimmy Carter had advised.




References

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• List of people named David
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