Frank G. Wisner

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Frank Gardner Wisner II (1938- ) is an American businessman and former diplomat. He is the son of Frank Wisner.

Wisner is currently Vice Chairman of American International Group.

Wisner was born in New York on 2 July 1938, and graduated from Princeton University in 1961. He joined the State Department as a Foreign Service Officer in December of that year.

In 1976, at the beginning of the Carter administration, he served under Cyrus Vance as Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State. He was United States Ambassador to Zambia, 1979-82; Egypt, 1986-91; Philippines, 1991-92; India, 1994-97.

After retiring from government service in 1997, Wisner joined the board at a subsidiary of Enron, the former energy company. He is also on the board of Hakluyt & Company, a British corporate investigation firm.

Wisner is married to Christine de Ganay, and they have four children.