John Negroponte
John Dimitri Negroponte (; born July 21, 1939) is an American diplomat. In 2018, he was a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a former J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of International Affairs at the
George Washington University's
Elliott School of International Affairs. Prior to this appointment, he served as a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at
Yale University's
Jackson Institute for Global Affairs,
United States Deputy Secretary of State (2007–2009), and the first ever
Director of National Intelligence (2005–2007).
Negroponte served in the
United States Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997. From 1981 to 1996, he had tours of duty as
United States ambassador in
Honduras,
Mexico, and the
Philippines. After leaving the Foreign Service, he subsequently served in the
Bush administration as
U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations from 2001 to 2004, and was ambassador to
Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005.
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