Edward Djerejian

Edward Djerejian

Edward Peter Djerejian (born March 6, 1939 in New York City ) is a former American diplomat , who among other things served as ambassador to Syria between 1989 and 1991 , and from 1991 to 1992 Assistant Secretary of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs , 1992 to 1993 Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and acting Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs between 1992 and 1993 . In 1994 he was briefly ambassador to Israel and has been director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University since August 1994 .

Life

Studies and beginning of the diplomatic career

Djerejian, a descendant of Armenian immigrants, completed a degree in foreign service at Georgetown University after attending school , from which he graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science (BS Foreign Service). Having 1961-1962 military service in the US Army had done, he entered the diplomatic service of the US State Department and was initially 1962-1964 Special Assistant to Deputy Secretary of State ( United States Under Secretary of State ) George Ball and then between 1965 and 1969 political advisor at the embassy in Lebanon . After he was political advisor at the embassy in Morocco between 1969 and 1972 , he worked from 1972 to 1975 as administrative assistant to Joseph J. Sisco , who was initially Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and then, from February 1974, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs was.

1975 Djerejian head of the General Consulate in Bordeaux and remained at this post until 1977. He then worked from 1978 to 1979 consultant in Europe Desk (Bureau of European Affairs) and 1979 to 1981 head of the political department at the embassy in the Soviet Union before he Served as Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Jordan from 1981 to 1984 . Between 1985 and 1986 he worked as special assistant to US President Ronald Reagan and his deputy press secretary for foreign affairs, and between 1986 and 1988 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs . As such, he was deputy to Richard W. Murphy who, as Assistant Secretary of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, was Head of the Middle East and South Asia Unit at the State Department.

Ambassador and Assistant Secretary of State

As the successor to William L. Eagleton , Djerejian took over his first ambassadorial post on October 2, 1988, as ambassador to Syria. He remained in this post until July 25, 1991.

He then replaced John Hubert Kelly himself on September 30, 1991 as Assistant Secretary of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs and thus head of the Middle East and South Asia Department in the Foreign Ministry. The Foreign Relations Act for the financial years 1992/1993 confirmed the appointment of the Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs of October 28, 1991 and decided to remove parts of the previous unit for the Middle East and South Asia (Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs) . As a result, on August 24, 1992 the Bureau of South Asian Affairs was created, which was responsible for relations with Afghanistan , Bangladesh , Bhutan , India , Maldives , Nepal , Pakistan and Sri Lanka . Djerejian then remained until December 17, 1993 as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs head of the reduced Middle East Department (Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs) and at the same time acted as Acting Assistant Secretary between August 24, 1992 and May 30, 1993 for South Asian Affairs as well as head of the newly created South Asia department.

Most recently, Djerejian became the new ambassador to Israel on January 13, 1994, succeeding William C. Harrop . However, he only held this ambassadorial post for a few months until August 9, 1994.

After retiring from the diplomatic service, Djerejian has been director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University since August 1994 . He has also been a member of the boards of Occidental Petroleum and Global Industries since 1996 and of the Baker Hughes board since 2001 . He was also involved in the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Diplomacy . He also served on the Advisory Board and Working Group on Religious and Ethnic Conflict Mitigation of the Clinton Global Initiative and was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Houston Ballet . In 2011 Djerejian became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

From his marriage to Françoise Andreé Liliane Marie Haelters, the son Gregory Peter Djerejian and the daughter Francesca Natalia Djerejian emerged.

Publications

• From Conflict Management To Conflict Resolution , in: Foreign Affairs , Volume 85, No. 6, November / December 2006, pp. 41–48
• Danger and Opportunity. An American Ambassador's Journey Through the Middle East , Autobiography, Threshold Editions, 2008, ISBN 978-1-41655-493-6

Web links

• Entry on the page of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
• Edward Djerejian in the nndb (English)
• Proof of publication in Open Library
• Proof of publication in Open Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christopher WS Ross , the previous ambassador to Algeria, was succeeded as ambassador to Syria on September 25, 1991 .
2. ↑ Robin Raphel , the former Counselor and Head of the Political Department at the Embassy in India, was succeeded as Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs on August 6, 1993 , while the current Ambassador to Egypt Robert Pelletreau was the new Assistant Secretary of State on February 18, 1994 for Near Eastern Affairs .
3. ↑ Successor as ambassador to Israel on April 10, 1994 was Martin Indyk , who was previously Executive Director for Middle East and South Asia Affairs of the USNSC ( National Security Council ) .