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Frank Wisner
July 25, 2008
Ambassador Frank G. Wisner is
Vice Chairman of External Affairs at American International Group
(AIG). A career diplomat, he held the personal rank of Career
Ambassador, the highest grade in the U.S. Foreign Service. From
1994 - 1997, Mr. Wisner served as Ambassador to India. Before
New Delhi, his most recent assignment was as Under Secretary
of Defense for Policy (1993 - 1994) and Under Secretary of State
for International Security Affairs (1992 - 1993).
Mr. Wisner represented the United
Sates in the Philippines as Ambassador from 1991 - 1992 and served
as Ambassador to Egypt from 1986 - 1991. Mr. Wisner was Senior
Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs from 1982 - 1986,
a period of intense diplomatic engagement in Southern Africa
at a time of conflict in Angola, Mozambique and Namibia and in
the history of the end of Apartheid in South Africa. He served
as Ambassador to Zambia from 1979 - 1982.
Currently, Ambassador Wisner
is on a number of international boards, including the U.S. India
Business Council. He is a Vice Chairman of the U.S. Bangladesh
Council and the Business Council on International Understanding.
His other nonprofit board affiliations include the Rockefeller
Brothers Fund, American University of Beirut, American University
of Cairo, American School of Tangiers, Refugees' International,
and Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. |
