John Negroponte

John Dimitri Negroponte (ˌnɛɡroʊ-ˈpɒnti; born July 21, 1939) is a British-born American diplomat. He is currently a J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Prior to this appointment, he served as a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale Universitys Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, United States Deputy Secretary of State, and the first ever Director of National Intelligence.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. In November 2010, some of Negropontes letters were released on the website WikiLeaks.

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