Findley Burns Jr. (May 4, 1917, in Baltimore, MD - October 14, 2003, in Southern Pines, NC) was an American Foreign Service officer, Vice Consul, and Ambassador.
A graduate of Princeton University (1939), Burns attended Harvard from 1950 to 1951 and was a student at the National War College in Washington from 1961 to 1962. He was a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.[1]
Burns entered the Foreign Service in 1941. Some of his early assignments were in Madrid, Brussels, Warsaw, London, and Vienna. He later served as ambassador to Jordan[2] (where he was stationed during the June 1967 Six-Day War), and he also served as an ambassador to Ecuador in 1970.[3] [4]
From 1974 to 1980, he worked at the United Nations in New York,[5] where he was director of the office of Technical Cooperation.[6]