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Richard Holbrooke
Richard Holbrooke was an American diplomat who brokered the Dayton Accords (1995) to end the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (UN; 1999–2001), and was...
Alfonso García Robles
Alfonso García Robles was a Mexican diplomat and advocate of nuclear disarmament. He was a corecipient with Alva Myrdal of Sweden of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1982. After receiving his law degree in...
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice is an American educator and politician, who served as national security adviser (2001–05) and secretary of state (2005–09) to U.S. Pres. George W. Bush. At age 15 Rice entered the University...
Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and statesman who, as the second secretary-general (1953–61) of the United Nations (UN), enhanced the prestige and effectiveness of that organization. He was posthumously...
Klemens von Metternich
Klemens von Metternich was an Austrian statesman, minister of foreign affairs (1809–48), and a champion of conservatism, who helped form the victorious alliance against Napoleon I and who restored Austria...
Mohamed ElBaradei
Mohamed ElBaradei is an Egyptian lawyer and government official who was director general (1997–2009) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and briefly served as the interim vice president of...
Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan was a Ghanaian international civil servant, who was the secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) from 1997 to 2006. He was the corecipient, with the United Nations, of the Nobel Prize for...
Ralph Bunche
Ralph Bunche was a U.S. diplomat, a key member of the United Nations for more than two decades, and winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Peace for his successful negotiation of an Arab-Israeli truce in Palestine...
Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright was a Czech-born American public official who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (1993–97) and who was the first woman to hold the cabinet post of U.S. secretary of state...
Alan Keyes
Alan Keyes is an American diplomat, radio commentator, and politician who was one of the most prominent African American conservatives in the late 20th and the early 21st century. He sought the Republican...
Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger was an American political scientist, who, as adviser for national security affairs and as secretary of state, was a major influence in the shaping of U.S. foreign policy from 1969 to 1976...
Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish businessman and diplomat who became legendary through his efforts to rescue Hungarian Jews during World War II and through his disappearance and subsequent death while a...
U Thant
U Thant was a Myanmar educator, civil servant, and the third secretary general of the United Nations (1962–71). Neutralist by inclination and in practice, he criticized both West and East for actions and...
George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan was an American diplomat and historian best known for his successful advocacy of a “containment policy” to oppose Soviet expansionism following World War II. Upon graduation from Princeton...
Ban Ki-Moon
Ban Ki-Moon is a South Korean diplomat and politician, who served as the eighth secretary-general (2007–16) of the United Nations (UN). At age 18 Ban won a competition that took him to the White House...
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Boutros Boutros-Ghali was an Egyptian scholar and statesman, secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) from January 1, 1992 to December 31, 1996. He was the first Arab and first African to hold the...
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent , prince de Bénévent was a French statesman and diplomat noted for his capacity for political survival, who held high office during the French Revolution,...
