Frank G. Wisner

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Frank George 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 an Advisory Board member for the Partnership for a Secure America, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy.

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

Currently Wisner is the special envoy of the US in the Troika group for the negotiations on the future status of the province of Kosovo (Serbia).

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Nicholas Platt	United States Ambassador to the Philippines 1991 – 1992	Succeeded by Richard H. Solomon
Political offices
Preceded by Paul Wolfowitz	United States Department of Defense Under Secretary of Defense for Policy 1993 – 1994	Succeeded by Walter B. Slocombe
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Thomas R. Pickering	U.S. Ambassador to India 1994 – 1997	Succeeded by Richard F. Celeste