Robert Blackwill
Robert Dean Blackwill (born August 8, 1939 in Kellogg , Shoshone County , Idaho ) is a former American diplomat .
Life
1964-1966 Blackwill volunteered in a peace corps in Malawi . In 1967 he then entered the diplomatic service. After working in the office, he was appointed to the embassy in Nairobi, Kenya , in 1970 and studied Swahili . 1972-1975 Blackwill was active again in Washington. From 1975 to 1978 he was a military attaché at the US Embassy in London. This was followed by two years as a political advisor in Tel Aviv. 1979 Blackwill became Western Europe Director United in the States National Security Council . In 1981 he was appointed Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs, and in 1982 Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs. From 1983 there was a break in the diplomatic service as dean at the ohn F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University . Blackweill became US chief negotiator in negotiations to reduce conventional troops in Europe. In 1989, President George Bush made him his personal advisor on issues relating to German unification, for which he was also awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. He was here the mentor of Condoleezza Rice .
During the Clinton years he returned to Harvard University . From 2001 he was the United States Ambassador to India , where he was responsible for the lifting of the US sanctions that had been in force since 1998.
From 2003 he was in Iraq involved in the transfer of power from the US to Iraqis; he was considered a supporter of the secular Iyad Allawi . At the end of Bush's first term, he retired from the diplomatic service and now worked for a lobby company as President of Barbour Griffith Rogers International in Washington.
Web links
- Peter Müller: Robert Blackwill: Bush's scouts for democracy in Iraq . ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Financial Times Deutschland , November 11, 2003
- Interview. Council on foreign relations
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Nominations & Appointments, March 29, 1985: Appointment of Robert Dean Blackwill as United States Representative to the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction Negotiations, and Nomination for the Rank of Ambassador . University of Texas at Austin ; accessed on March 28, 2015.
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| SURNAME | Blackwill, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blackwill, Robert Dean (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kellogg , Shoshone County , Idaho |