William Joseph Burns

William Joseph Burns ( born April 4, 1956 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina) is an American diplomat who has held since July 28, 2011 as the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs ( Deputy Secretary of State ), the second-highest post in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United States.

Life

After schooling studied Burns, son of Major General William Burns, history at La Salle University, where she earned after a year abroad at the University of Laval in Quebec City in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA History). He then graduated with a scholarship from the George C. Marshall Foundation postgraduate studies in International Relations at the University of Oxford and graduated first with a Master of Philosophy and finally in 1981 with a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D.) from.

After graduating, he entered the diplomatic service in 1982 and took place in the following years until 1996 both uses in the State Department and at U.S. missions abroad. Then he was between 1996 and 1998 Special Assistant to the then Foreign Minister of State Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright and U.S. Executive Secretary of State Director of the Executive Secretariat of the management of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In August 1998 he was appointed as successor to William Wesley Egan, Jr. Ambassador to Jordan and then returned in June 2001 back to the State Department, where he was until 2005 Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. In November 2005, Burns was, who also worked for the Council on Foreign Relations, the successor of Alexander Vershbow ambassador to Russia.

From the 13th May 2008, he held as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs the third-highest post in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United States. On 27 July 2011, the U.S. Senate confirmed his appointment as Deputy Foreign Minister and thus deputy to Hillary Clinton. The next day he came over from James Steinberg. Since January 2013 he is deputy of Hillary Clinton's successor, John Kerry.

Publications

  • Economic Aid and American Policy Toward Egypt, 1955-1981 (1985 )
George Marshall Ambassadors of the United States United States Assistant Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton John N. Irwin II Kenneth Rush Robert S. Ingersoll Charles W. Robinson Walter John Stoessel, Jr. Kenneth W. Dam John C. Whitehead Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. Richard Armitage (politician) Livingston T. Merchant George C. McGhee Eugene V. Rostow U. Alexis Johnson William J. Porter Joseph J. Sisco Philip Habib David D. Newsom Arnold Kanter Peter Tarnoff Thomas R. Pickering Marc Grossman R. Nicholas Burns
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