Ulric St. Clair Haynes, Jr.
June 8, 1931 – August 21, 2020
United States diplomat, lawyer, and university professor.
Mr. Ulric was an American diplomat, lawyer, and university professor. He served as the U. S Ambassador to Algeria from 1977 to 1981. He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, the Council of American Ambassadors, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Ulric was Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to West Indian immigrant parents, graduated from Amherst College in 1952, from Yale Law School in 1956, and from Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program while U.S. Ambassador to Algeria from 1977 to 1981, was instrumental in the negotiations that led to the 1981 release of American hostages in Iran during the well-documented Iranian Hostage Crisis.
He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, the Council of American Ambassadors, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
He has served on the boards of directors of businesses such as the American Broadcasting Company, Rohm and Haas, HSBC Bank USA, Pall Corporation, and INNCOM. He has published papers on foreign relations and lectured at (among other institutions) Stanford University and Harvard Business School, where he graduated from the Advanced Management Program. Haynes retired in 2003 as dean of the Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University, having also been executive dean of university international relations. In addition, he has served as acting president of SUNY College at Old Westbury and president of AFS Intercultural Programs.
Haynes was a visiting lecturer at the Harvard Business School from 1968 to 1972. He has also lectured at Stanford Business School. He was the president of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. He was dean of the Frank G. Zarb School of Business and the executive dean of university international relations at Hofstra University from 1996 till his retirement in 2003. He is an adjunct professor of international relations at Rollins College and the University of Central Florida. Haynes says that “contact with students” is what he likes most about teaching.
He holds honorary doctorates from Indiana University, Butler University, John Jay College, Fisk University, Alabama State University, Mercy College, and Amherst College.
Haynes is also a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy
Haynes was married to the former Yolande Toussaint and had two children. He died from COVID-19 on August 21, 2020, at the age of 89.