'''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.
Although long well-known in diplomatic and journalistic circles, Holbrooke achieved great public prominence only 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).
Although he lost out to Madeline_Albright in 1997 when Bill_Clinton chose a replacement for Warren_Christopher as Secretary_of_State, Holbrooke is still seen as a leading contender for that post in any future Democratic administration. He was an advisor to the Presidential campaign of John_Kerry in 2004. While not an extremist in his views, (he is perhaps more hawkish than most Democrats), Holbrooke has a very aggressive style that some find off-putting. Others see him as an effective, hard-nosed negotiator.
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. He currently (2005) writes a monthly column for The_Washington_Post.
Ambassador Holbrooke has two sons. He is currently married to Kati_Marton, an author and journalist. She was formerly married to anchorman Peter_Jennings.
==Life Events==
*1962 graduates from Brown_University; enters U.S._Foreign_Service
*1962-6 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_Johnson
*1967-69 special assistant to Under Secretaries of State Nicholas_Katzenbach and Elliot_Richardson, writes one volume of the Pentagon_Papers
*1967-9 member of the American Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam
*1969-70 fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton_University
*1970 Peace_Corps Director in Morocco
*1972 resigns from Foreign Service
*1972-6 Managing Editor of ''Foreign Policy'' magazine
*1974-5 consultant to the President's Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy
*1974-5 contributing editor of Newsweek magazine
*1976 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 Director
*1992 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_Economics
*1993 U.S. Ambassador to Germany
*1994-6 Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs
*1995 Leads the American team negotiating the Bosnian Peace Accords at Dayton
*1996 Awarded the Manfred Wörner Medall
*1997 President Clinton's special envoy to Cyprus
*1997 responsible for business development in Europe and the Far East for Credit_Suisse_First_Boston
*1999-2001 U.S. Ambassador to the United_Nations
*2001 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)
*2001 appointed President & CEO, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS
*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 links==
*Richard Holbrooke profile, NNDB.
*Mother Jones Article on Holbrooke's Involvement in East Timor
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