Anthony Lake is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of
Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown
University and Principal of Intellibridge, an information services company. He
served during 1993-1997 as Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs. President Clinton said of Anthony Lake's service as National Security
Advisor, "In moments of crisis, in times of triumph, he has always been at my
side."
As the point man of America's foreign policy team, Dr.
Anthony Lake strategized and implemented some of the most pressing foreign
policy issues our country has faced since the end of the Cold War. Dr. Anthony
Lake guided the United States through such geopolitical hot spots as Bosnia,
North Korea, Haiti, Iraq, Somalia and China while extending the reach of
democracy throughout the globe. He also served as a Senior Foreign Policy
Advisor to the Clinton/Gore campaign in 1991-1992. From 1981-1992 Mr. Anthony
Lake was Five College Professor of International Relations at Amherst and Mount
Holyoke colleges. Mr. Anthony Lake joined the State Department in 1962, where he
served until 1970 as a Foreign Service Officer. His State Department career
included assignments as U.S. Vice Consul in Saigon (1963), U.S. Vice Consul in
Hue (1964-65) and Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs (1969-1970).
Mr. Anthony Lake's board memberships include the U.S. Fund
for UNICEF, the Marshall Legacy Institute, the International Committee of the
Red Cross, the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, America
Abroad, and Freedom House. He also serves on the Board of Trustees at St. Mary's
College of Maryland.
In his speeches, Anthony Lake outlines the key foreign policy
challenges America will face in the coming years. Drawing on his decades of
experience, he points out that while political leaders may change with
elections, America 's interests do not. He talks about the way these challenges
-- met or ignored -- affect the lives of each and every American and our
prospects for the century ahead. A veteran of policy wars, he maps out how old
threats like aggression by rogue states have taken on new and dangerous
dimensions and a host of modern threats -- from terrorism to drug trafficking to
man-made environmental disasters -- ignores national borders and undermines our
security.
