Who Is He?:
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke was born on April 24, 1941 in New York City to Dan Holbrooke and Trudi Moos Kear. He is a well-known American diplomat widely seen as a potential secretary of state in a Democratic presidential administration.
Education:
Holbrooke received his BA from Brown University in 1962 and completed a post-graduate fellowship at Princeton University in 1970.
Experience:
He is perhaps best known for brokering the Dayton Peace Accords ending the Bosnian War. Holbrooke is the author of several books and an advisor to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Prior to this he was:
- On President Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam staff (1966-1968)
- Director of the Peace Corps office in Morocco (1970-1972)
- Managing Editor of Foreign Policy Magazine (1972-1977)
- Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1977-1981)
- U.S. Ambassador To Germany (1993-1994)
- Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs (1994-1996)
- U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1999-2001)
Statements:
- Interview With Richard Holbrooke On The G-8, Iraq And Afghanistan, from Spiegel Online, June 8, 2007
- Transcript: Newsmaker segment on Bosnia, PBS NewsHour, August 11, 1997
Fun Facts:
Holbrooke is the only U.S. official to have served as the assistant secretary of state for two different geographic regions (Europe and Asia).