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William Green Miller
2nd United States Ambassador to Ukraine
In office
October 21, 1993 – January 6, 1998
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byRoman Popadiuk
Succeeded bySteven Pifer
Personal details
Born(1931-08-15)August 15, 1931
New York City, New York, United States
DiedSeptember 23, 2019(2019-09-23) (aged 88)
Hollin Hills, Virginia, United States
SpouseSuzanne
EducationWilliams College
University of Oxford
Harvard University
ProfessionDiplomat

William Green Miller (August 15, 1931 - September 23, 2019) was an American diplomat who 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 was a Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C..[2] He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and the Middle East Institute.[1][3] Further, Miller served as the co-Chairman of the Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America[4] and a Director of The Andrei Sakharov Foundation.[5] He additionally consulted for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.[1]

Miller died on September 23, 2019, in his home in Virginia.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Ukraine embassy biography
  2. ^ Wilson Center webpage
  3. ^ Council on Foreign Relations roster
  4. ^ Kyiv Mohyla Foundation gallery
  5. ^ The Andrei Sakharov Foundation webpage
  6. ^ Bonner, Brian (2019-09-24). "William Green Miller, second US ambassador to independent Ukraine, dies at age 88". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Ukraine
1993–1998
Succeeded by