Timothy M. Carney
Timothy Michael Carney (* 1944 ) is a former US Ambassador, Advisor to the US Government, Representative to the UN, Business Consultant and is appointed to the US Government's Reconstruction Service in Iraq.
In 1966 he graduated from MIT with a degree in systems engineering . However, he had a great affinity for languages and went to France to learn the French language. He is also proficient in the Thai language and the Khmer language . In 1967 he joined the US State Department . During the Vietnam War he was entrusted with duties in Vietnam and Cambodia . Before the end of apartheid, he was used in Lesotho and the South African Union .
In the early 1990s he worked for the UN peacekeeping . From March 1992 to August 1993 he stayed in Cambodia as part of UNTAC . He performed tasks within UNOSOM II in Somalia from December 1993 to February 1994.
During the administration of US President George Bush , he was responsible for affairs in Asia at the NSC . From 1994 to 1995 he headed the South Asia Bureau at the US State Department. From March to June 1994 he was a member of the UNOMSA campaign for the Nelson Mandela elections in South Africa. From 1995 to February 7, 1996 he was the US Ambassador to Sudan .
In Haiti , he took on the duties of ambassador to the USA from 1998 to 1999. He then resigned from the US State Department and worked as a management consultant. On November 20, 2002, he founded the Haiti Democracy Project (HDP), which should contribute to democratic conditions in Haiti.
He was the first civilian group to work in the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) from mid-March to mid-June 2003 under US administrators Jay Garner and Paul Bremer at the Iraqi Ministry of Industry as a consultant. Afterwards he was very pessimistic about future developments in Iraq .
In 2004 and 2005 he worked again for the HDP in Haiti. In January 2007 he was hired by the US Department of State to undertake the reconstruction of Iraq. Since 2004 he had already carried out individual tasks for the training of units of the US armed forces for operations in Iraq.
Carney is married to journalist Victoria Butler and has one daughter.
Fonts
- Communist Party Power in Kampuchea Documents and Discussion , June 1977
- Whither Cambodia? Beyond the Election , November 1993 (with other authors)
- Intelligence Failure? Let's Go Back to Sudan, Washington Post, June 30, 2002
- With Victoria Butler and Michael Freeman: Sudan: The Land and the People
Web links
- Timothy Carney's biography in the U.S. Department of State Archives
- A picture by Timothy Carney in 2005
- Carney as founder of the Haiti Democracy Project from 2002 to 2005
- In 2003, Timothy Carney expressed pessimism about future developments in Iraq
- Timothy Carney '66 - Foreign Service career devoted to peacekeeping, in: Technology Review, November 14, 2006
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Donald K. Petterson |
US Ambassador to Khartoum September 9, 1995–7. February 1996 |
vacant |
| William L. Swing |
US Ambassador to Port-au-Prince January 14, 1998-11. December 1999 |
Brian Dean Curran |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carney, Timothy M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carney, Timothy Michael (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |