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United States Anthony Lake has served at the highest levels of U.S. foreign policy and international humanitarian efforts, transitioning from National Security Advisor to Executive Director of UNICEF.
Anthony Lake served as the sixth Executive Director of UNICEF from May 1, 2010, to December 31, 2017, focusing on global child welfare initiatives.
Anthony Lake served as a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Clinton/Gore presidential campaign in 1991-1992.
Anthony Lake served as the 17th United States National Security Advisor from 1993 to 1997 under President Bill Clinton.
Lake was an advisory board member for the Partnership for a Secure America, a non-profit organization focused on bipartisan national security and foreign policy.
Lake served as Chair on the board of the Marshall Legacy Institute, which works in conflict-affected countries to remove landmines and assist survivors.
Anthony Lake is married to Julie Katzman, who serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Inter-American Development Bank.
William Anthony Kirsopp Lake, born on April 2, 1939, in New York City, has had a distinguished career in diplomacy and public service. He pursued his education at Harvard College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961. Furthering his academic pursuits, Lake studied international economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later earned a PhD from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1974. His doctoral dissertation focused on American policy towards South Africa from 1946 to 1971. Lake’s early career began in 1962 when he joined the U.S. State Department as a Foreign Service Officer, with assignments in Saigon (1963) and Huế (1964–1965) during the Vietnam War, and later as special assistant in the Nixon administration (1969–1970).
Lake’s commitment to public service continued with various significant roles. He served as Director of Policy Planning under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. During the 1992 presidential campaign, he was a chief foreign policy adviser for Bill Clinton, and subsequently served as the 17th United States National Security Advisor from 1993 to 1997. In this role, Lake was instrumental in developing the policy that contributed to the resolution of the Bosnian War and advocated for a policy of “enlargement” of free market democracies after the Cold War. Following his tenure as National Security Advisor, Lake was nominated to be the Director of Central Intelligence, though his nomination was withdrawn. He later served as the White House Special Envoy from 1998 to 2000, mediating the Algiers Agreement which ended the Eritrean-Ethiopian War. Lake also held academic positions as a professor at Amherst College and Mount Holyoke College, and as Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University.
From 2010 to 2017, Lake held the position of the sixth Executive Director of UNICEF after being nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama and named by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. In this capacity, he focused efforts on redirecting investment towards the most disadvantaged children and reducing child mortality worldwide. Prior to his UNICEF leadership, he was an advisory board member for the Partnership for a Secure America and served on the boards of the United States Fund for UNICEF and the Marshall Legacy Institute. Lake’s extensive career demonstrates a steady commitment to addressing complex international challenges and improving the lives of vulnerable populations globally.
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