Amb. Robert Hunter

U.S. Ambassador to NATO under President Clinton and US representative to the Western European Union; principal architect of the “New NATO,” leading the North Atlantic Council in implementing decisions of the 1994 and 1997 NATO Summits and in obtaining air-strike decisions that halted the Bosnia war. Member of Secretary Cohen’s Defense Policy Board. Director of West European Affairs and later Director of Middle East Affairs on the National Security Council during the Carter administration, and a principal author of the Carter Doctrine for the Persian Gulf. Foreign policy advisor to Senator Edward Kennedy and foreign and domestic policy advisor to Vice President Humphrey. Served on White House staff in the Johnson administration and in the U.S. Department of the Navy on the Polaris project. Senior Fellow at Overseas Development Council, Research Associate, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Professorial Lecturer at London School of Economics, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins (SAIS) and George Washington University.