Robert S. Gelbard

Robert S. Gelbard (born 1944 in New York City) is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Bolivia (1988-91) and Indonesia (1999-2001). He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, and is a 1964 graduate of Colby College and a 1979 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, where he received a Master of Public Administration.

In the Clinton administration, he was an envoy to the Balkans.^[1] In the Spring of 1998, he met with Slobodan Milosevic and warned him about NATO's possible use of military force against Serbia.^[1] By May 1998, he suggested to the White House that they bomb Serbia, but the idea was originally rejected by NSA Sandy Berger.^[1]

Lobbying activities

Gelbard is the founder and chairman of Washington Global Partners LLC, a lobbying and consulting outfit based in Washington, DC. In October 2011, the Economist reported that Gelbard lobbied to discredit the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala and its current director, Francisco Dall'Anese.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Eric Moskowitz and Jeffrey S. Lantis, 'Conflict in the Balkans', in Fateful Decisions: Inside the National Security Council, ed. Karl F. Inderfurth and Loch K. Johnson, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, p.256
^ "Parachuting in the prosecutors". The Economist. 2011-10-15. http://www.economist.com/node/21532292.

Government offices
Preceded by Melvyn Levitsky	Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters November 23, 1993 – April 10, 1997	Succeeded by Rand Beers

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