- Frank G. Wisner
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 on2 July 1938 , and graduated fromPrinceton University in 1961. He joined the State Department as aForeign 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 toZambia , 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 ofHakluyt & 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. He also serves on the Advisory Board of theNational Security Network .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
Kosovo .External links
* [http://www.whartonglobal.com/wgbf2003/india/wisner.asp Frank G. Wisner bio] at Wharton University
* [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frank_Wisner Sourcewatch page]
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