Evan G. Galbraith

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Evan Griffith Galbraith (born 1928) was the United States Ambassador to France from 1981 to 1985.

Galbraith was born in Toledo, Ohio. He is a graduate of Yale University (class of 1950, member of Skull & Bones) and Harvard Law School. He served on active duty in the Navy from 1953 to 1957, attached to the Central Intelligence Agency. From 1960 to 1961, he was the confidential assistant to the Secretary of Commerce.

Galbraith was ambassador to France under President Ronald Reagan and has spent more than twenty years in Europe, primarily as an investment banker. He currently is an advisory director of Morgan Stanley, chairman of the board of National Review, and a member of the board of the Groupe Lagardère S.A. Paris. Together with Daimler Benz, the Groupe Lagardère S.A. controls EADS (European Aerospace and Defense Systems), Europe's largest defense contractor and principal owner of Airbus. Galbraith has served on several other commercial boards and until 1998 was chairman of the board of the New York subsidiary of LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton).

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has appointed Evan G. Galbraith as his representative in Europe and the defense advisor to the U.S. mission to NATO. In making this appointment Rumsfeld said, "I wanted a seasoned, vigorous representative in Europe who will bring experienced leadership to this important mission."

His wife is Marie "Bootsie" Galbraith. He is a member of the Center for Security Policy and the Bohemian Club in San Francisco.