Anthony Lake

W. Anthony Lake ( born April 2, 1939 in New York City ) is a retired American political scientist, university professor and diplomat, who was national security adviser to the U.S. and since 2010 director of UNICEF.

Life

After schooling Lake studied at Harvard University, completed his studies in 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts ( AB) and completed after further study at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. After training at the American Academy of Diplomacy, he entered the diplomatic service and was among other things, 1969-1970 employees of Henry Kissinger, the National Security Advisor damaligern.

In 1974, he earned a Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D.) at Princeton University and then was formerly a professor at Amherst College in Massachusetts and in the connection during the presidency of Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 Director of Policy Planning at the State Department. After Lake taught from 1981 to 1992 as a professor at also based in Massachusetts Mount Holyoke College.

After the election of Bill Clinton, he was finally in January 1993, whose National Security Advisor and held that office during the first term of Clinton until March 1997. One of his assistants had since 1994 Neal S. Wolin, who in 2009 was deputy U.S. Treasury. In January 1997, he was nominated by Clinton as the successor of John M. Deutch for the post of Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). However, he gave up this calling even before the completion of the confirmation process by the Senate. Reason for his resignation was that the U.S. Congress had severely criticized him because of concealed weapons shops.

After his retirement from government service, he became in 1997 a professor at Georgetown University. Lake engaged also active in numerous foreign and security policy organizations and was not only a member of the advisory boards of America Abroad and the Partnership for a Secure America, but also for the Council on Foreign Relations and the research organization Freedom House. Between 2007 and 2008 he was again foreign policy advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama today. Despite this, he took up no task in the Cabinet Obama, although he was called again as a possible CIA Director.

He was also one of the signatories of Global Zero, an application launched in December 2008 initiative, which has a total nuclear disarmament goal worldwide.

Since April 30, 2010 Lake is Director of the United Nations and succeeds Ann Veneman Kinderhilfswerk.

Publications

  • The " Tar Baby" Option: American Policy Toward Southern Rhodesia (1976 )
  • Somoza Falling (1989 )
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