Edward Djerejian

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Edward P. Djerejian is a former US diplomat, and the founding Director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.[1]

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[edit] Life and work

Born in New York in 1939[2], Djerejian 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)
  • Chief 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)[2]
  • Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1991–1993)[2]
  • United States Ambassador to Israel (1993–1994)[2]
  • 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.[citation needed]

Ambassador Djerejian chaired the congressionally mandated bipartisan Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World which published its report Changing Minds, Winning Peace in October, 2003. He was Senior Policy Advisor to the congressionally mandated bipartisan Iraq Study Group which published its report in December, 2006.

Djerejian coined the description of the democratic goals of political Islamism as "One man, one vote, one time."

He is married to Françoise Andree Liliane Marie (Haelters) Djerejian, and they have two children, Gregory and Francesca.[citation needed]

[edit] Notes and References

  1. ^ Baker Institute - Ambassador Djerejian - Biography (September 2004). Archived from the original on 2008-02-07. Retrieved on 2008-02-27.
  2. ^ a b c d U.S. State Department Archives (People)
Preceded by
William Caldwell Harrop		 U.S. Ambassador to Israel
1993–1994		 Succeeded by
Martin Indyk
Preceded by
William L. Eagleton, Jr.		 U.S. Ambassador to Syria
1988–1991		 Succeeded by
Christopher W.S. Ross
Persondata
NAME Edward Peter Djerejian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH New York
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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