Anthony Lake
Professor at Georgetown University (since 1997)

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Lake has spent his career in the eye of foreign policy storms.
The Vietnamese speaker asked to be deployed to Saigon as soon as he was accepted by the Foreign Service in 1962. He attended the first U.S. meeting with the North Vietnamese in 1969. As President Bill Clinton's national security adviser, he negotiated peace deals in Bosnia, Ethiopia and Israel.
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