William Green Miller
William Green Miller | |
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| United States Ambassador to Ukraine | |
| In office September 16, 1993 – January 6, 1998 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Roman Popadiuk |
| Succeeded by | Steven Pifer |
William Green Miller (born August 15, 1931 in New York City, New York), served as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine under Bill Clinton, from 1993 to 1998.[1]
Education
He went to college and graduate school at Williams College, the University of Oxford and Harvard University.[1]
Diplomat
In 1959, he joined the United States Foreign Service.[1] From 1959 to 1964, he served as a diplomat in Iran.[1] He then worked as a staffer for Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and in the Senate for John Sherman Cooper.[1]
From 1981 to 1983, he served as Associate Dean and Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.[1] In 1986, he was a Research Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics and became President of the American Committee on United States-Soviet Relations.[1] From 1993 to 1998, he served as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine.[1]
He is a Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C..[2] He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and the Middle East Institute.[1][3] He is the co-Chairman of the Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America[4] and a Director of The Andrei Sakharov Foundation.[5] He consulted for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.[1]
In 2008, after clinching the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama enlisted William Miller to ensure them that upon his general election victory, any sanctions imposed by the US would be more lenient under him than under the current Bush administration. Thus, encouraging the Iranians to cease talks with the US about any deal currently being crafted by the Bush administration.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Ukraine embassy biography
- ^ Wilson Center webpage
- ^ Council on Foreign Relations roster
- ^ Kyiv Mohyla Foundation gallery
- ^ The Andrei Sakharov Foundation webpage
- ^ [https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/05/31/flashback-that-time-when-barack-obama-secretly-reached-out-to-russia-and-iran-n2332890
External links
- Ledeen, Michael (August 29, 2014). "Conversation with Michael Ledeen". PJ Media. Retrieved March 2015.
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