Edward Djerejian

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. [citeweb| archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070202102729/http://bakerinstitute.org/Persons/InsDir.htm| archivedate=2008-02-07| url=http://bakerinstitute.org/Persons/InsDir.htm| date=September 2004| title=Baker Institute - Ambassador Djerejian - Biography| accessdate=2008-02-27]

Life and work

Born in New York in 1939 [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/11413.htm#Djerejian U.S. State Department Archives (People)] ] , 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)
* Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1991–1993)
* United States Ambassador to Israel (1993–1994)
* 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.Fact|date=February 2008

Ambassador Djerejian chaired the congressionally mandated bipartisan Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World which published its report [http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/24882.pdf 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 is the author of the book, Danger and Opportunity-An American Ambassador's Journey Through the Middle East, (Simon & Schuster Threshold Editions, September, 2008.)

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

Ambassador Djerejian has been awarded the Presidential Distinguished Service Award, the Department of State's Distinguished Honor Award, the President's Meritorious Service Award, the Anti-Defamation League’s Moral Statesman Award, and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

He is managing partner of Djerejian Global Consultancies, LLP (www.globalconsultancies.com), and is also on several public and nonprofit boards, including the Brookings Doha Center.

He is married to Françoise Andree Liliane Marie (Haelters) Djerejian, and they have two children, Gregory and Francesca.Fact|date=February 2008and a grandchild, Isabel Alessandra Djerejian.

Notes and References

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NAME = Edward Peter Djerejian
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH = 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH = New York
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