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Anthony Lake (William Anthony Kirsopp Lake) was born on 2 April, 1939 in New York City, U.S., is an American diplomat and political advisor (born 1939). Discover Anthony Lake's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

Popular As William Anthony Kirsopp Lake
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Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 2 April, 1939
Birthday 2 April
Birthplace New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Antonia Plehn (m. 1962-1995) Julie Katzman (m. 2005)

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1914

Lake is the grandson of Kirsopp Lake, a member of the Church of England clergy who moved to the United States from Oxford, England, in 1914, to teach New Testament studies at Harvard.

Lake's father, Gerard Kirsopp Lake, was a New Deal Democrat, and his mother, Eleanor (née van Someren Hard), a Republican.

Lake himself was born in New York City.

1939

William Anthony Kirsopp Lake (born April 2, 1939) is an American diplomat and political advisor who served as the 17th United States National Security Advisor from 1993 to 1997 and as the sixth Executive Director of UNICEF from 2010 to 2017.

1961

He attended Middlesex School and Harvard College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961.

1962

Lake joined the State Department in 1962, serving until 1970 as a Foreign Service Officer.

Lake was an assistant to Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.. during the Vietnam War.

1963

His State Department career included assignments as consul at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam (1963), vice consul in Huế (1964–1965) and special assistant to the assistant to the president for national security affairs (1969–1970) in the Nixon administration.

1969

In 1969, he accompanied National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger on his first secret meeting with North Vietnamese negotiators in Paris.

1970

In 1970, he had a falling-out with Kissinger over the Nixon administration's Cambodian Campaign and left the State Department as a result.

He later wrote a book critical of Kissinger's approach to Africa.

1972

Lake worked for Democratic U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine in his 1972 presidential campaign.

1974

Lake studied international economics at Trinity College, Cambridge for two years and later received a PhD from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1974 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Caution and concern: the making of American policy toward South Africa, 1946-1971."

1977

After Muskie lost the nomination to George McGovern, Lake served briefly at the Carnegie Endowment and International Voluntary Services before returning to serve as Director of Policy Planning under Jimmy Carter (1977–1981).

1980

After Carter lost the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan, Lake became the Five College Professor of International Relations chair in Massachusetts (1981–1992), teaching first at Amherst College.

1984

In 1984, he moved to Mount Holyoke College, where he taught courses on the Vietnam War, Third World revolutions, and American foreign policy.

1992

During the 1992 presidential campaign, he was one of Clinton's chief foreign policy advisers.

1993

He has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates, and served as National Security Advisor under U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.

Lake is credited as being one of the individuals who developed the policy that led to the resolution of the Bosnian War.

He also held the chair of Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C.

(He left Mount Holyoke College in 1993 to become National Security Advisor from 1993 to 1997.) Among his protegees at Mount Holyoke was his student research assistant Mona Sutphen who would later serve in the Barack Obama White House as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.

Lake later served as National Security Advisor (1993–1997).

In the aftermath of the Cold War, Lake advocated a policy of "enlargement" of the number free market democracies.

Told by the White House to sell his stocks in energy companies when he took the office in 1993, Lake did not do so.

1994

When Clinton decided in 1994 to allow Iran to arm the Bosnian army, Lake admitted he made a mistake when he didn't push to inform Congress of the decision.

1996

Following Clinton's 1996 re-election, he nominated Lake to become the Director of Central Intelligence, but his nomination was withdrawn due to Republican opposition.

It has also been reported that the failure of his nomination was related to his decision to withdraw support at the last minute for an Iraqi coup that might have removed Saddam Hussein without U.S. intervention.

However, others have speculated that Lake's nomination "failed, in part, because Lake stated in a television interview that he was not sure if Alger Hiss was guilty."

1997

In 1997, he became Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, until accepting his position with UNICEF.

1998

After the withdrawal of his CIA nomination, Lake became White House Special Envoy (1998–2000).

As special envoy Lake mediated the drafting of the Algiers Agreement, ending the Eritrean-Ethiopian War.

2000

Lake co-founded Intellibridge Corporation in 2000 with David Rothkopf.

2001

He later (in 2001) co-edited a festschrift for his Princeton mentor, Richard H. Ullman.

Lake was good friends with Richard Holbrooke whom he met in Vietnam while both of them were in the foreign service.

They frequently visited each other and Lake aided Holbrooke throughout the early years of his career.

They grew apart when Holbrooke had an affair with Lake's wife.

Although this did not initially end their companionship, they rarely spoke, and by the time Lake became National Security Advisor, their friendship was over.

2005

In 2005 the assets of Intellibridge were acquired by the Eurasia Group.

2008

Lake was a foreign policy adviser for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, having endorsed him over Senator Hillary Clinton, whom he had worked alongside during the Clinton administration.

Lake was considered a potential Secretary of State until Senator Clinton was named to the position.