John B. Ritch III
American diplomat (born 1943)
John B. Ritch III is a former American diplomat whose career includes extensive experience on the congressional side of US foreign policy and in international business. After early service as a captain in the US Army (1968–1972) and then a staff adviser on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1972–1993), he was appointed by President of the United States Bill Clinton to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations International Organizations in Vienna, a position he held from 1993 to 2001. Thereafter, as a business executive from 2001 to 2012, he headed the World Nuclear Association, the London-based trade association that encompasses the worldwide nuclear energy industry. Meanwhile, as a sidelight, in 1992 Ritch co-founded an international company that has attained three decades of success in marketing US-made nutritional products throughout much of Europe.