The Honorable Richard C. Holbrooke Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC

Richard C. Holbrooke is Vice Chairman of Perseus, a leading private equity firm. He most recently served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, where he was also a member of President Clinton’s cabinet (1999-2001). As Assistant Secretary of State for Europe (1994-1996), he was the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia. He later served as President Clinton’s Special Envoy to Bosnia and Kosovo and Special Envoy to Cyprus on a pro-bono basis while a private citizen. From 1993-1994, he was the US. Ambassador to Germany. During the Carter Administration (1977-1981), he served as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and was in charge of U.S. relations with China at the time Sino-American relations were normalized in December, 1978. After joining the Foreign Service in 1962, he had assignments in Vietnam, the State Department and the Johnson White House. He has been a Peace Corps Director in Morocco, Managing Editor of Foreign Policy, and held senior positions at two leading Wall Street firms, Credit Suisse First Boston (Vice Chairman) and Lehman Brothers (Managing Director). He has written numerous articles, two books: To End a War, a memoir of the Dayton negotiations, and co-author of Counsel to the President, Clark Clifford’s memoir, as well as one volume of The Pentagon Papers. He has received nineteen honorary degrees and numerous awards; including seven Nobel Peace Prize nominations. He is the Founding Chairman of the American Academy in Berlin, a new center for U.S.-German cultural exchange, President and CEO of the Global Business Coalition, the business alliance against HIV/AIDS, and became Chairman of the Asia Society in October 2002. He is working on a book on American diplomacy, serves as a Board Member of AIG, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Endowment for Democracy, Human Genome Sciences, The Africa-America Institute, the Citizens Committee for New York City, the Council on Foreign Relations, Quebecor World, Inc. and Refugees International.