Edward Djerejian
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Edward P. Djerejian is a former US diplomat, currently Director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
Born in New York, he graduated from Georgetown University in 1960. He served in the US Army in Korea for the next two years, and then joined the Foreign Service. He served as:
- political officer in Beirut (1966-1969)
- political officer in Casablanca (1969-1972)
- Consul General in Bordeaux (1975-1977)
- head of the US Embassy's political section in Moscow (1979-1981)
- Deputy Chief of the US mission to Jordan (1981-1984)
- Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1985)
- Deputy Assistant Secretary of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs (1986-1988)
- Ambassador to Syria (1989-1991)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1991-1993)
- United States Ambassador to Israel (1993)
- Director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University (August 1994-present)
Besides English, he speaks Arabic, Armenian, French, and Russian.
As director of the Baker Institute, Mr. Djerejian currently works in a supporting capacity with the congressionally mandated Iraq Study Group, formed in 2006. In 2003, Djerejian was among those who predicted that reconstruction of Iraq would only take 60-90 days [1]
