Richard Holbrooke
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (born April 24, 1941) is a New Yorker who has had a varied career as a professional American diplomat, magazine editor, author, Peace Corps director, and investment banker. During the 1970's, Holbrooke was US advisor in Indonesia. He is reported to have actively supported in Jakarta's brutal invasion of East Timor which was carried out with US military aid. Some critics accuse Holbrooke of being responsible for 200,000 Timorese deaths and subsequent human rights abuses. Holbrooke came to prominence when he brokered a peace agreement among the warring factions in Bosnia that led to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995. He is also the only person to have held the Assistant Secretary of State position for two different regions of the world (Asia and Europe). He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Citizens Committee for New York City, and the Economic Club of New York. He is a board member of AIG and the National Endowment for Democracy and is Chairman of International Rescue Committee and Refugees International. He is also the Founding Chairman of the American Academy in Berlin, and Vice Chairman of Perseus LLC. He has written numerous articles and two books, and has received more than a dozen honorary degrees. Ambassador Holbrooke has two sons.
Life Events1962 graduates from Brown University; enters U.S. Foreign Service1962-6 Vietnam diplomatic service as a provincial representative for the Agency for International Development (AID), then Ambassadors' staff assistant to Maxwell Taylor and Henry Cabot Lodge. 1966 White House Vietnam staff of President Lyndon Johnson1967-69 special assistant to Under Secretaries of State Nicholas deb. Katzenbach and Elliot Richardson, writes one volume of the Pentagon Papers1967-9 member of the American Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam1969-70 fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University1970 Peace Corps Director in Morocco1972 resigns from Foreign Service1972-6 Managing Editor of Foreign Policy magazine1974-5 consultant to the President's Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy1974-5 contributing editor of Newsweek magazine1976 coordinates National Security Affairs for the Carter presidential campaign. 1977-81 Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (as the U.S. switches full diplomatic relations to the People's Republic of China from the Republic of China) 1981 A consultant at Lehman Brothers, eventually becoming full-time Managing Director1992 member of the Carnegie Commission on America and a Changing World 1992 chairman and principal author of the bipartisan Commission on Government and Renewal, sponsored by The Carnegie Foundation and the Institute for International Economics1993 U.S. Ambassador to Germany1994-6 Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs1995 Leads the American team negotiating the Bosnian Peace Accords at Dayton1996 Awarded the Manfred Wörner Medall1997 President Clinton's special envoy to Cyprus1997 responsible for business development in Europe and the Far East for Credit Suisse First Boston1999-2001 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations2001 counselor at the Council on Foreign Relations and chairman of its Terrorism Task Force. 2001 appointed director of Rockville, MD, company Human Genome Sciences, Inc (Nasdaq: HGSI) 2002 Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (Germany)2002 In October he became Chairman of the Asia Society.
Books"Counsel to the President" (with Clark Clifford) ISBN 0394569954"To End a War" ISBN 0375753605
External LinksRichard Holbrooke profile, NNDB.Mother Jones Article on Holbrooke's Involvement in East Timor
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