Peter Burleigh | |
Office: | United States Ambassador to India |
Status: | Acting |
President: | Barack Obama |
Term Start: | July 1, 2011 |
Term End: | April 24, 2012 |
Predecessor: | Tim Roemer |
Successor: | Nancy Jo Powell |
President1: | Barack Obama |
Term Start1: | January 15, 2009 |
Term End1: | August 11, 2009 |
Predecessor1: | David Mulford |
Successor1: | Tim Roemer |
Office2: | United States Ambassador to the United Nations |
President2: | Bill Clinton |
Term Start2: | August 18, 1998 |
Term End2: | September 7, 1999 |
Predecessor2: | Bill Richardson |
Successor2: | Richard Holbrooke |
Office3: | United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives |
President3: | Bill Clinton |
Term Start3: | January 19, 1996 |
Term End3: | August 1, 1997 |
Predecessor3: | Teresita Schaffer |
Successor3: | Shaun Donnelly |
Office4: | 8th Coordinator for Counterterrorism |
President4: | George H. W. Bush |
Term Start4: | November 22, 1991 |
Term End4: | November 23, 1992 |
Predecessor4: | Morris D. Busby |
Successor4: | Philip C. Wilcox Jr. |
Birth Date: | 7 March 1942 |
Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Albert Peter Burleigh (born March 7, 1942) is an American diplomat who worked as a Foreign Service Officer and joined the American Academy of Diplomacy.
Burleigh was born March 7, 1942, in Los Angeles. He graduated from Hollywood High School and then Colgate University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1963.[1]
He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal from 1963 to 1965, during which time he mastered the Nepali language.[2] In addition to Nepali, he speaks Bengali, Hindi, and Sinhalese.[3]
He served as U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka from 1995 to 1997, serving concurrently as ambassador to the Maldives.[4] In 1998–99, he was chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. In 1999, President Clinton nominated Burleigh for the post of ambassador to the Philippines and Palau, but the U.S. Senate never acted upon the nomination, and it was eventually withdrawn. In 2009 and again in 2011, he was appointed chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, pending appointments first of Timothy Roemer and of Nancy Jo Powell as ambassador.[5] [6] [7] [8]
He is a visiting professor of international affairs at the University of Miami.
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