WILLSBORO, NY, April 01, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Cynthia Day Wallace, PhD, has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

Dr. Wallace has established herself as a distinguished expert in international economic law specializing in foreign direct investment. However, her international law focus began to shift when she accepted a diplomatic post at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in Geneva in 1991. At the time, the State of Israel was presenting its credentials for ECE membership after a 7-year wait for an open window. After Israel's successful bid for membership, Dr. Wallace was entrusted with the Israel portfolio. Since then, Israeli/Palestinian issues have developed into her primary international law preoccupation.

With a career marked by significant contributions to global policy and diplomacy, Dr. Wallace's work is driven by the challenge of distilling complex subjects into concise position papers and policy recommendations. She has been a senior fellow at The Hague Initiative for International Cooperation (thinc.) since 2017 amidst other concerned international lawyers grappling with the challenges of the relationship between Israel and other nations. This initiative promotes international peace, security and the peaceful resolution of disputes based on principles of justice and international law. In her role as a senior fellow, Dr. Wallace conducts research, writes articles and books, and creates policy papers to influence decision-makers and diplomats worldwide.

Dr. Wallace has traveled and lectured widely as an international lawyer, visiting North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. She has lived in Paris, Vienna, Geneva, Heidelberg, Hamburg, Montreal, New York and Washington D.C. She has also lived in both Cambridge, Massachusetts and Cambridge, England.

Born in Connecticut and raised in Colorado, Dr. Wallace returned to New England for her higher education and the start of her academic and professional career. She graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from Mount Holyoke College and later earned her Doctor of Philosophy in international law from Cambridge University. Her educational background laid a strong foundation for her illustrious career, which began with academic roles at Harvard University, McGill University and Cambridge University.

Dr. Wallace returned to the United States in 1981, armed with her newly earned Cambridge PhD, to accept the position of deputy executive director of the Investment Negotiation Program at the International Law Institute of Georgetown University. Two years later, she transferred to the school's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which soon assumed its independence as a prominent DC think tank.

Dr. Wallace remained at CSIS as a senior fellow and international business and economics project director until 1991, when a new opportunity arose. The U.S. State Department called upon and endorsed Dr. Wallace to fill a diplomatic post at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Geneva, as senior adviser to the executive secretary. Her influence extended beyond her official duties, and her writings continue to impact UN annual meetings and decision-making processes.

Having held earlier positions with the United Nations in Vienna, Geneva and New York, Dr. Wallace's return to the UN in Geneva to assume a diplomatic-level post crowned her formal career. There, she was the third highest-ranking executive office member, affording her the opportunity to play a meaningful role in annual meetings, facilitating and helping to shape significant outcomes. When she is not tending her mother's mid-1800s stone house on Lake Champlain in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York State, she continues to maintain Geneva as her primary residence.

Dr. Wallace is a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Governor William Bradford Compact, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the American Society of International Law and the Oxford and Cambridge Dining Club Geneva. Throughout her career, she has been recognized with numerous awards for her accomplishments. In addition to being named a Max Planck Visiting Fellow multiple times, she received the prestigious Grotius International Law Award, conferred jointly by the United Nations Association of Connecticut and the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague. A ceremony was held in her honor at Yale University for this special recognition.

Dr. Wallace feels she communicates most effectively through writing. As an accomplished and award-winning author, she has published over 40 articles, opinion pieces and books with the top U.S. and European law journals and legal book publishers. Her writing allows her to disseminate her messages widely and effectively, making an impact by providing input and informing sound policy decisions. She finds special satisfaction in writing for policymakers and decision-makers in pursuit of her goal to inform, share truths and communicate sound reason grounded in law and justice.

Dr. Wallace is an editor of and contributing author to the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Her magnum opus is the 1,325-page volume entitled "The Multinational Enterprise and Legal Control: Host State Sovereignty in an Era of Economic Globalization," released by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Her most recent law-oriented books reflect her current focus on Israel and include "Foundations of the International Legal Rights of the Jewish People and the State of Israel and the Implications for the Proposed New Palestinian State" and "Israel in the Crosshairs – Legitimacy Under Fire." A smaller commemorative work, prepared for the centenary of the San Remo Resolution, is entitled "San Remo – The Zionist Vision becomes International Law."

Dr. Wallace's faith-based books have received overwhelmingly positive endorsements and feedback from prominent Christian and Jewish religious leaders and seekers of wisdom, truth, and intimacy with God. She is deeply dedicated to certain spiritual themes, most notably the Rapture of the Church and the related end-time prophecy. Her spiritually oriented publications include "Don't Miss the Rapture: A Scriptural Re-Examination of the End-Time Scenario."

In addition to her literary accolades, Dr. Wallace is an award-winning artist. She has always had a passion and a gift for engaging in fine arts, and her drawings of scenic Cambridge, Hamburg and Heidelberg helped finance her Cambridge PhD. This is not to mention her striking charcoal series of Washington DC at night.

Dr. Wallace attributes her success to her deep faith in God and the strong concentration of royal blood that runs in her veins, traced back to William the Conqueror and down through ten of the sovereigns of Europe. In the words of The New England Genealogical Register, this is "a confluence of royal blood not often witnessed." She has been motivated by a sense of responsibility to this awesome lineage since childhood, particularly when considering Luke 12:48: "For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required." Despite her many accomplishments, Dr. Wallace believes that her ultimate destiny is not yet fulfilled and that the best is yet to come.

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