Frank G. Wisner

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 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. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the National 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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