| Ted Eliot | |
| Office: | 9th Inspector General of the Department of State |
| President: | Jimmy Carter |
| Term Start: | July 5, 1978 |
| Term End: | October 16, 1978 |
| Predecessor: | Robert M. Sayre |
| Successor: | Robert C. Brewster |
| Office1: | 12th United States Ambassador to Afghanistan |
| President1: | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter |
| Term Start1: | November 21, 1973 |
| Term End1: | June 14, 1978 |
| Predecessor1: | Robert G. Neumann |
| Successor1: | Adolph Dubs |
| Office2: | 4th Executive Secretary of the Department of State |
| President2: | Richard Nixon |
| Term Start2: | August 10, 1969 |
| Term End2: | September 26, 1973 |
| Predecessor2: | Benjamin H. Read |
| Successor2: | Thomas R. Pickering |
| Birth Name: | Theodore Lyman Eliot Jr. |
| Birth Date: | 24 January 1928 |
| Birth Place: | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Sonoma, California, U.S. |
| Education: | Harvard University (BA, MPA) |
Theodore Lyman Eliot Jr. (January 24, 1928 – August 8, 2019)[1] [2] was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from 1973 to 1978. He was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Boston's Eliot family.
Eliot graduated from Harvard College in 1948 and received a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School in 1956. He also served as Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University[3] and as Secretary General for the United States of the Bilderberg Meetings from 1981 to October 1993.[4]