"In 1981 and 1982, Mr. Novak led the U.S. Delegation to the [[United Nations]] Human Rights Commission in Geneva, with the rank of Ambassador. In March 1986, he headed the U.S. Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the monitor of the Helsinki accords). With Senate approval, he was appointed in 1984 to the [[Board for International Broadcasting]], the private corporation that governs [[Radio Free Europe]]. In December 1985, he was appointed to the [[Presidential Task Force on Project Economic Justice]]. He has served the United States during both Democratic and Republican administrations," it states.
"Mr. Novak began his teaching career as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard. In 1976 he accepted a tenured chair at Syracuse University, before joining the American Enterprise Institute as a research scholar in 1978. Mr. Novak has received numerous awards, including the [[Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion ]] (1994), as well as more than a dozen honorary degrees, both here and abroad."
Novak has written extensively on Catholic issues. Earlier in his career,