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American Academy of Diplomacy

ORGANIZATION

Founded in 1983.

Officers as of May 2006: Chairman Thomas Pickering, Vice Chairman Marc Grossman, President Brandon Grove, Treasurer Nicholas Veliotes, Secretary Roscoe S. Suddarth, Program Director Hoang Anh Lam.

Board members as of May 2006: Julia Chang Bloch, Avis Bohlen, James F. Collins, Charles W. Freeman, Jr., Robert Gallucci, Tony Gillespie, Richard N. Gardner, Brandon Grove, H. Allen Holmes, Robert E. Hunter, L. Craig Johnstone, James R. Jones, Princeton Lyman, Patricia Lynch Ewell, Phyllis E. Oakley, Mark Palmer, Edward M. Rowell, J. Stapleton Roy, Mary Ryan, Daniel Simpson, Edward S. Walker.

Ex Officio: David H. Popper, Bruce Laingen, Bruce S. Gelb, Kenneth L. Brown.

Chairmen Emeriti: Sol Linowitz, Frank Carlucci, Lawrence Eagleburger, Max Kampelman.

Official Website:
http://www.academyofdiplomacy.org/

Founding Date:
1983

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
O. Rudolph Aggrey
Diplomat
24-Jul-1926   US Ambassador to Romania, 1977-81
Madeleine Albright
Diplomat
15-May-1937   Bill Clinton's Secretary of State
Michael Armacost
Diplomat
15-Apr-1937   US Ambassador to Japan, 1989-93
Richard Armitage
Government
26-Apr-1945   US Deputy Secretary of State, 2001-05
Anne L. Armstrong
Government
27-Dec-1927 30-Jul-2008 US Ambassador to the UK, 1976-77
Diego Asencio
Diplomat
15-Jul-1931   US Ambassador to Brazil, 1983-86
J. Brian Atwood
Government
25-Jul-1942   USAID Administrator, 1993-99
James Baker
Government
28-Apr-1930   US Secretary of State, 1989-92
Harry Barnes
Diplomat
5-Jun-1926 9-Aug-2012 US Ambassador to Chile, 1985-88
Charlene Barshefsky
Diplomat
11-Aug-1950   US Trade Representative, 1997-2001
Reginald Bartholomew
Diplomat
17-Feb-1936 26-Aug-2012 US Ambassador to Italy, 1993-97
Lucius Battle
Diplomat
1-Jun-1918 13-May-2008 US Ambassador to Egypt, 1964-67
Richard Benedick
Diplomat
?   US negotiator to the Montreal Protocol
Sandy Berger
Government
28-Oct-1945 2-Dec-2015 National Security Advisor for Bill Clinton
Julia Chang Bloch
Diplomat
1942   US Ambassador to Nepal, 1989
Avis Bohlen
Diplomat
20-Apr-1940   US Ambassador to Bulgaria, 1996-99
Stephen W. Bosworth
Diplomat
4-Dec-1939 4-Jan-2016 US Ambassador to South Korea, 1997-2000
Robert R. Bowie
Government
24-Aug-1909 2-Nov-2013 CIA Deputy Director, 1977-79
Thomas Boyatt
Diplomat
4-Mar-1933   US Ambassador to Colombia, 1980-83
Everett Briggs
Diplomat
6-Apr-1934   US Ambassador to Portugal, 1990-93
Keith L. Brown
Diplomat
18-Jun-1925   US Ambassador to Denmark, 1989-92
Kenneth L. Brown
Diplomat
6-Dec-1936   US Ambassador to Ghana, 1992-95
L. Dean Brown
Diplomat
21-Aug-1920 2-May-2001 US Ambassador to Jordan, 1970-73
Peter Burleigh
Diplomat
7-Mar-1942   US Ambassador to the UN, 1997-99
Prudence Bushnell
Diplomat
?   US Ambassador to Kenya, 1996-99
Patricia M. Byrne
Diplomat
1-Jun-1925 23-Nov-2007 US Ambassador to Burma, 1979-83
Frank Carlucci
Government
18-Oct-1930   US Secretary of Defense, 1987-89
Wendy Chamberlin
Diplomat
12-Oct-1948   US Ambassador to Pakistan, 2001-02
Warren Christopher
Government
27-Oct-1925 18-Mar-2011 US Secretary of State, 1993-97
Joan M. Clark
Diplomat
27-Mar-1922   US Ambassador to Malta, 1979-81
William Clark, Jr.
Diplomat
12-Oct-1930   US Ambassador to India, 1989-92
Harlan Cleveland
Government
19-Jan-1918 30-May-2008 Futurist, diplomat
Herman Cohen
Diplomat
10-Feb-1932   US Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia 1977-80
James F. Collins
Diplomat
1939   US Ambassador to Russia, 1997-2001
Elinor Constable
Diplomat
1934   US Ambassador to Kenya, 1986-89
Edwin Corr
Diplomat
6-Aug-1934   US Ambassador to El Salvador, 1985-88
John H. Crimmins
Diplomat
26-Nov-1919 12-Dec-2007 US Ambassador to Brazil, 1973-78
Chester A. Crocker
Government
29-Oct-1941   Asst. Secy. State, African Affairs, 1981-89
William J. Crowe, Jr.
Government
2-Jan-1925 18-Oct-2007 US Navy Admiral
Walter Cutler
Diplomat
25-Nov-1931   US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1984-87
Kenneth W. Dam
Government
10-Aug-1932   Deputy Treasury Secretary, 2001-03
Jeffrey Davidow
Diplomat
26-Jan-1944   US Ambassador to Mexico, 1998-2001
Nathaniel Davis
Diplomat
12-Apr-1925 16-May-2011 US Ambassador to Chile, 1971-73
John Gunther Dean
Diplomat
24-Feb-1926   US Ambassador to India, 1985-88
Edward Djerejian
Diplomat
6-Mar-1939   US Ambassador to Israel, 1994
James F. Dobbins
Diplomat
31-May-1942   US Ambassador to the EU, 1991-93
Lawrence Eagleburger
Government
1-Aug-1930 4-Jun-2011 US Secretary of State, 1992-93
Donald Easum
Diplomat
27-Aug-1923   US Ambassador to Nigeria, 1975-77
Hermann Eilts
Diplomat
23-Mar-1922 12-Oct-2006 US Ambassador to Egypt, 1973-79
Luigi R. Einaudi
Diplomat
1-Mar-1936   Secy. General of the OAS, 2004-05
Stuart Eizenstat
Diplomat
15-Jan-1943   US Ambassador to the EU, 1993-96
Theodore L. Eliot, Jr.
Diplomat
24-Jan-1928   US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1973-78
Patricia Lynch Ewell
Diplomat
20-Apr-1926 4-Dec-2011 US Ambassador to Madagascar, 1986-89
Richard K. Fox
Diplomat
22-Oct-1925   US Ambassador to Trinidad, 1977-79
Charles W. Freeman, Jr.
Diplomat
1943   US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1989-92
Robert Gallucci
Diplomat
11-Feb-1946   President, MacArthur Foundation
Richard N. Gardner
Diplomat
9-Jul-1927   US Ambassador to Spain, 1993-97
Bruce S. Gelb
Diplomat
24-Feb-1927   US Ambassador to Belgium, 1991-93
Robert S. Gelbard
Diplomat
1944   US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1999-2001
Tony Gillespie
Diplomat
22-Mar-1935 7-Mar-2008 US Ambassador to Chile, 1988-91
Skip Gnehm
Diplomat
10-Nov-1944   US Ambassador to Jordan, 2001-04
Robert F. Goheen
Educator
15-Aug-1919 31-Mar-2008 President of Princeton University, 1957-72
James Goodby
Diplomat
20-Dec-1929   US Ambassador to Finland, 1980-81
Lincoln Gordon
Diplomat
10-Sep-1913 19-Dec-2009 US Ambassador to Brazil, 1961-66
Marc Grossman
Diplomat
23-Sep-1951   US Under Secy. for Political Affairs, 2001-05
Brandon Grove
Diplomat
8-Apr-1929   US Ambassador to Zaire, 1984-87
Richard Haass
Government
28-Jul-1951   President, Council on Foreign Relations
Alexander Haig
Government
2-Dec-1924 20-Feb-2010 US Secretary of State, 1981-82
Lee H. Hamilton
Politician
20-Apr-1931   9/11 Commission vice chairman
W. Averell Harriman
Diplomat
15-Nov-1891 26-Jul-1986 Ambassador to USSR, Governor of NY
William Harrop
Diplomat
19-Feb-1929   US Ambassador to Israel, 1991-93
Arthur A. Hartman
Diplomat
12-Mar-1926 16-Mar-2015 US Ambassador to the USSR, 1981-87
Ulric Haynes
Diplomat
8-Jun-1931   US Ambassador to Algeria, 1977-81
Carla Hills
Diplomat
3-Jan-1934   US Trade Representative, 1989-93
Deane R. Hinton
Diplomat
12-Mar-1923   US Ambassador to Panama, 1990-94
Richard C. Holbrooke
Diplomat
24-Apr-1941 13-Dec-2010 US Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan
Genta Hawkins Holmes
Diplomat
3-Sep-1940   US Ambassador to Australia, 1997-2000
H. Allen Holmes
Diplomat
31-Jan-1933   US Ambassador to Portugal, 1982-85
Donna Hrinak
Diplomat
c. 1950   US Ambassador, Latin America
Thomas C. Hubbard
Diplomat
1943   US Ambassador to South Korea, 2001-04
Thomas L. Hughes
Government
?   Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace
Robert E. Hunter
Diplomat
c. 1940   US Ambassador to NATO, 1993-98
Martin Indyk
Diplomat
c. 1951   US Ambassador to Israel, 1995-97, 2000-01
Robert S. Ingersoll
Diplomat
28-Jan-1914 22-Aug-2010 CEO of Borg-Warner, 1958-72
John N. Irwin III
Business
c. 1954   Arizona land baron
L. Craig Johnstone
Diplomat
1-Sep-1942   US Ambassador to Algeria, 1985-88
A. Elizabeth Jones
Diplomat
1948   US Ambassador to Kazakhstan, 1995-98
James R. Jones
Diplomat
5-May-1939   US Ambassador to Mexico, 1993-97
Philip M. Kaiser
Diplomat
12-Jul-1913 24-May-2007 US Ambassador to Austria, 1980-81
Curtis Kamman
Diplomat
15-Jan-1939   US Ambassador to Colombia, 1997-2000
Max Kampelman
Diplomat
7-Nov-1920 25-Jan-2013 US Ambassador to the CSCE
Robert Keeley
Diplomat
4-Sep-1929 9-Jan-2015 US Ambassador to Greece, 1985-89
Kenton Keith
Diplomat
12-Nov-1939   US Ambassador to Qatar, 1992-95
Robert M. Kimmitt
Diplomat
19-Dec-1947   US Deputy Treasury Secretary
Roger Kirk
Diplomat
2-Nov-1930   US Ambassador to Romania, 1985
Henry Kissinger
Government
27-May-1923   US Secretary of State, 1973-77
John Kornblum
Diplomat
6-Feb-1943   US Ambassador to Germany, 1997-2001
Daniel Kurtzer
Diplomat
Jun-1949   US Ambassador to Israel, 2001-05
Dennis Kux
Diplomat
11-Aug-1931   US Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, 1986-89
Bruce Laingen
Diplomat
6-Aug-1922   US Ambassador to Malta, 1977-79
Melvin Laird
Government
1-Sep-1922   US Secretary of Defense, 1969-73
Anthony Lake
Government
2-Apr-1939   Clinton's National Security Advisor
George W. Landau
Diplomat
4-Mar-1920   US Ambassador to Venezuela, 1982
Alan Larson
Diplomat
c. 1949   Under Secy. of State for Economics, 1999-2005
James F. Leonard
Diplomat
30-May-1920   US Ambassador to the UN, 1977-79
Melvyn Levitsky
Diplomat
19-Mar-1938   US Ambassador to Brazil, 1994-98
Samuel W. Lewis
Diplomat
1-Oct-1930 10-Mar-2014 US Ambassador to Israel, 1977-85
Sol Linowitz
Business
17-Dec-1913 18-Mar-2005 Negotiated return of the Panama Canal
Henry Cabot Lodge
Politician
12-May-1850 9-Nov-1924 US Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924
Winston Lord
Diplomat
17-Aug-1937   President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1977-85
Stephen Low
Diplomat
2-Dec-1927 15-Nov-2010 US Ambassador to Nigeria, 1979-81
Clare Boothe Luce
Politician
10-Apr-1903 9-Oct-1987 Congresswoman, wife of Henry R. Luce
William H. Luers
Diplomat
15-May-1929   US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1983-86
Princeton Lyman
Diplomat
20-Nov-1935   US Ambassador to South Africa, 1992-95
Leonard H. Marks
Diplomat
5-Mar-1916 11-Aug-2006 Washington lawyer, diplomat
Charles Mathias
Politician
24-Jul-1922 25-Jan-2010 US Senator from Maryland, 1969-87
Jack Matlock
Diplomat
1-Oct-1929   US Ambassador to the USSR, 1987-91
Robert J. McCloskey
Diplomat
25-Nov-1922 1996 US Ambassador to Greece, 1978-81
Donald F. McHenry
Diplomat
13-Oct-1936   US Ambassador to the UN, 1979-81
John E. McLaughlin
Government
15-Jun-1942   Deputy Director CIA, 2000-04
Robert McNamara
Government
9-Jun-1916 6-Jul-2009 US Secretary of Defense, 1961-68
Thomas E. McNamara
Diplomat
1940   US Ambassador to Colombia, 1988-91
Philip Merrill
Publisher
28-Apr-1934 10-Jun-2006 Capital Gazette Communications
Armin H. Meyer
Diplomat
19-Jan-1914 13-Aug-2006 US Ambassador to Japan, 1969-72
William Milam
Diplomat
24-Jul-1936   US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1998-2001
Robert H. Miller
Diplomat
8-Sep-1927   US Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, 1983-86
Walter Mondale
Politician
5-Jan-1928   US Vice President under Jimmy Carter
George Moose
Diplomat
23-Jun-1944   US Ambassador to the UN in Europe, 1998-2001
Langhorne A. Motley
Diplomat
5-Jun-1938   US Ambassador to Brazil, 1981-83
Ed Muskie
Politician
28-Mar-1914 26-Mar-1996 US Senator from Maine, 1959-80
John Negroponte
Diplomat
21-Jul-1939   US Ambassador to the UN, 2001-04
David D. Newsom
Diplomat
6-Jan-1918 30-Mar-2008 US Ambassador to Philippines, 1977-78
Thomas Niles
Diplomat
22-Sep-1939   US Ambassador to Greece, 1993-97
Sam Nunn
Politician
8-Sep-1938   US Senator from Georgia, 1972-97
Joseph S. Nye
Government
19-Jan-1937   Chairman, National Intelligence Council, 1993-94
Phyllis E. Oakley
Government
1934   Assistant Secy. of State for Intelligence, 1997-99
Robert B. Oakley
Diplomat
12-Mar-1931 10-Dec-2014 US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1988-91
Herbert S. Okun
Diplomat
27-Nov-1930 8-Nov-2011 US Ambassador to the UN, 1985-89
Henry D. Owen
Diplomat
26-Aug-1920 5-Nov-2011 US Ambassador at Large, 1977-81
Mark Palmer
Diplomat
14-Jul-1941 28-Jan-2013 US Ambassador to Hungary, 1986-90
Ronald D. Palmer
Diplomat
22-May-1932   US Ambassador to Mauritius, 1986-89
Richard B. Parker
Diplomat
3-Jul-1923 7-Jan-2011 US Ambassador to Morocco, 1978-79
Robert Pelletreau
Diplomat
9-Jul-1935   US Ambassador to Egypt, 1991-93
Charles H. Percy
Politician
27-Sep-1919 17-Sep-2011 US Senator from Illinois, 1967-85
Edward Perkins
Diplomat
8-Jun-1928   US Ambassador to Australia, 1993-96
Pete Peterson
Diplomat
26-Jun-1935   US Ambassador to Vietnam, 1997-2001
Thomas Pickering
Diplomat
5-Nov-1931   Career US Ambassador
Nicholas Platt
Diplomat
10-Mar-1936   US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1991-92
David H. Popper
Diplomat
3-Oct-1912 24-Jul-2008 US Ambassador to Chile, 1974-77
Colin Powell
Government
5-Apr-1937   US Secretary of State, 2001-05
Joseph W. Prueher
Diplomat
25-Nov-1942   US Ambassador to China, 1999-2001
Anthony Quainton
Diplomat
4-Apr-1934   US Ambassador to Peru, 1989-92
Charles Redman
Diplomat
24-Dec-1943   US Ambassador to Germany, 1994-96
John Reinhardt
Diplomat
8-Mar-1920   US Ambassador to Nigeria, 1971-75
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Diplomat
22-Aug-1935   Asst. Secy. of State for Europe, 1985-89
William D. Rogers
Diplomat
12-May-1927 22-Sep-2007 Under Secretary of State, 1976-77
Felix Rohatyn
Business
29-May-1928   Financier, Lazard Fr�res
Dennis B. Ross
Diplomat
26-Nov-1948   US Middle East Envoy, 1992-2000
Edward M. Rowell
Diplomat
31-Oct-1931   US Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1990-94
J. Stapleton Roy
Diplomat
16-Jun-1935   US Ambassador to China, 1991-95
Donald Rumsfeld
Government
9-Jul-1932   US Secretary of Defense, 1975-77 and 2001-06
Dean Rusk
Government
9-Feb-1909 21-Dec-1994 US Secretary of State, 1961-69
Mary Ryan
Diplomat
1-Oct-1940 25-Apr-2006 US Ambassador to Swaziland, 1988-90
Hal Saunders
Government
27-Dec-1930   Asst. Secy. of State for the Near East, 1978-81
Robert Sayre
Diplomat
18-Aug-1924   US Ambassador to Brazil, 1978-81
Howard B. Schaffer
Diplomat
21-Jul-1929   US Ambassador to Bangladesh, 1984-87
James R. Schlesinger
Government
15-Feb-1929 27-Mar-2014 Served Nixon, Ford, Carter
Brent Scowcroft
Government
19-Mar-1925   National Security Advisor to Ford and GHWB
William W. Scranton
Politician
19-Jul-1917 28-Jul-2013 Governor of Pennsylvania, 1963-67
Raymond Seitz
Diplomat
8-Dec-1940   US Ambassador to the UK, 1991-94
Sally Shelton-Colby
Diplomat
1944   US Ambassador to Barbados, 1979-81
Harry W. Shlaudeman
Diplomat
17-May-1926   US Ambassador to Nicaragua, 1990-92
George Shultz
Government
13-Dec-1920   US Secretary of State, 1982-89
Daniel Simpson
Diplomat
9-Jul-1939   US Ambassador to the Congo, 1995-98
Joseph J. Sisco
Diplomat
31-Oct-1919 23-Nov-2004 Kissinger's Mideast Deputy
Richard H. Solomon
Diplomat
1937   President of US Institute For Peace
Helmut Sonnenfeldt
Government
c. 1938   Former NSC staffer
Joan Spero
Diplomat
2-Oct-1944   Under Secretary of State, 1993-97
Ronald Spiers
Diplomat
9-Jul-1925   US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1981-83
Monteagle Stearns
Diplomat
5-Dec-1924   US Ambassador to Greece, 1981-85
Walter Stoessel
Diplomat
24-Jan-1920 9-Dec-1986 Ambassador to the USSR, Germany, Poland
Roscoe S. Suddarth
Diplomat
1935   US Ambassador to Jordan, 1987-90
William H. Sullivan
Diplomat
12-Oct-1922 11-Oct-2013 US Ambassador to Iran, 1977-79
William L. Swing
Diplomat
11-Sep-1934   US Ambassador to Congo, 1998-2001
Phillips Talbot
Diplomat
7-Jun-1915 1-Oct-2010 US Ambassador to Greece, 1965-69
Strobe Talbott
Government
25-Apr-1946   Time journalist, Deputy Secy. of State
Shirley Temple
Actor
23-Apr-1928 10-Feb-2014 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Terence A. Todman
Diplomat
13-Mar-1926 13-Aug-2014 US Ambassador to Argentina, 1989-93
Malcolm Toon
Diplomat
4-Jul-1916 12-Feb-2009 US Ambassador to the USSR, 1976-79
Leonard S. Unger
Diplomat
17-Dec-1917 3-Jun-2010 US Ambassador to Taiwan, 1974-79
Viron P. Vaky
Diplomat
13-Sep-1926 22-Nov-2012 US Ambassador to Venezuela, 1976
Cyrus Vance
Government
27-Mar-1917 12-Jan-2002 US Secretary of State, 1977-80
William vanden Heuvel
Diplomat
14-Apr-1930   US Ambassador to the UN Europe, 1977-79
Nicholas Veliotes
Diplomat
28-Oct-1928   US Ambassador to Egypt, 1984-86
Richard N. Viets
Diplomat
10-Nov-1930   US Ambassador to Jordan, 1981-84
Edward S. Walker
Diplomat
13-Jun-1940   US Ambassador to Israel, 1997-99
Alexander F. Watson
Diplomat
8-Aug-1939   US Ambassador to Peru, 1986-89
William Webster
Government
6-Mar-1924   FBI Director 1978-87, CIA Director 1987-91
Melissa F. Wells
Diplomat
18-Nov-1932   US Ambassador to Estonia, 1998-2001
John C. Whitehead
Business
2-Apr-1922 7-Feb-2015 US Deputy Secretary of State, 1985-89
Frank G. Wisner
Diplomat
1938   US Ambassador to India, 1994-97
Paul Wolfowitz
Government
22-Dec-1943   President of the World Bank, 2005-07
Johnny Young
Diplomat
6-Feb-1940   US Ambassador to Slovenia, 2001-04
Anthony Zinni
Military
17-Sep-1943   Former C-in-C, U.S. Central Command


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