Timothy M. Carney

Timothy Michael Carney ( born 1944 ) was an American ambassador, adviser to the U.S. government, representative of the UN, business consultant and is appointed for the construction of service of the U.S. government in Iraq.

In 1966, he earned a degree at MIT in the multiple system engineering. However, he had a great inclination towards languages ​​and went to France to study the French language. He also mastered the Thai language and the Khmer language. In 1967 he entered the service of the U.S. State Department. During the Vietnam War, he was assigned duties in Vietnam and Cambodia. Before the end of apartheid it was used in Lesotho and in the Union of South Africa.

In the early 1990s he worked for UN peacekeeping. From March 1992 to August 1993 he held under the UNTAC in Cambodia. Tasks within UNOSOM II he took in Somalia from December 1993 to February 1994 true.

During the reign of U.S. President George Bush, he was in charge of affairs in Asia in the NSC. From 1994 to 1995 he headed the South Asia Bureau at the U.S. Department of State. From March to June 1994 he was a member of UNOMSA action for the election of Nelson Mandela in South Africa. From 1995 to 7 February 1996, he was U.S. ambassador in Sudan.

In Haiti, he assumed the duties of an ambassador of the USA in the years 1998 to 1999. Afterwards, he resigned from the U.S. State Department and worked as a management consultant. AM November 20, 2002, he founded the Haiti Democracy Project ( HDP ), which should contribute to democracy in Haiti.

As the first civilian group, he worked in the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance ( ORHA ) from mid-March to mid-June 2003 among U.S. managers Jay Garner and Paul Bremer in Iraq's Ministry of Industry as a consultant. Then he spoke very pessimistic about the future development in Iraq.

In 2004 and 2005 he was working for the HDP in Haiti again. In January 2007, he was the part of the U.S. State Department undertakes tasks for the reconstruction of Iraq. Since 2004, he had performed certain tasks for the training of units of the armed forces of the United States for use in Iraq.

Carney is married to journalist Victoria Butler and has one daughter.