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Anthony Lake

Professor at Georgetown University (since 1997)

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Why He Matters

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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At a Glance

  • Hometown: New York, N.Y.
  • Alma Mater: Harvard, BA, 1961;Princeton, PhD, 1974
  • Spouse: Julie Katzman
  • Religion: Jewish
  • Office: 301 Intercultural Center, Georgetown University; 202-687-6083
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