List of New York University alumni
Politics , law and government -- Ambassadors from the United States
Table:
Name

Relation to NYU

Notability

Reference

Clay Constantinou

Law LL.M., 1986

United States Ambassador to Luxembourg

David M. Friedman

Law

United States Ambassador to Israel

John S.R. Shad

Law

United States Ambassador to the Netherlands

David Pressman

Law

United States Ambassador to the United Nations

Robert Patrick John Finn

M.A.

United States Ambassador to Afghanistan

Patricia McMahon Hawkins

CAS

United States Ambassador to Togo

Joseph R. DeTrani

CAS, B.S.

United States Ambassador Special Envoy for Six Party Talks (2005–06),
United States Ambassador Special Envoy on Korean Affairs (2003–05)

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Fred J. Eckert

CAS

United States Ambassador to Fiji

Heather M. Hodges

M.A.

United States Ambassador to Moldova

Clifford Sobel

Stern B.S., 1972

United States Ambassador to the Netherlands, United States Ambassador to Brazil

Herbert Wolcott Bowen

POLY

United States Ambassador to Venezuela

George W. Landau

United States Ambassador to Venezuela

Mary Carlin Yates

M.A., Ph.D.

United States Ambassador to Ghana

Kenneth L. Brown

M.A.

United States Ambassador to Ghana

Charles L. English

United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Max Kampelman

B.A., LL.B.

United States Ambassador to the CSCE

Elliott Skinner

B.A.

United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso

William Henry Draper Jr.

United States Ambassador to NATO

Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.

United States Ambassador to Sweden

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Clay Constantinou ( born 1951 ) is an American lawyer and diplomat . He served as US Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1994 to 1999 and as Dean of the Whitehead School of Diplomacy at Seton Hall University from 1999 to 2005 . He is currently Of Counsel at Wilentz , Goldman & Spitzer , P.A . a law firm based in Woodbridge , NJ .
The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University . Established in 1835 , it is the oldest law school in New York City . The school offers J.D. , LL.M. , and J.S.D . degrees in law , and is located in Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan . NYU Law is regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world . U.S. News & World Report currently ranks NYU Law 6th in the nation . It is currently ranked the 4th best law school in the world by Shanghai 's Academic Ranking of World Universities ( ARWU ) by subject Law . NYU Law is also consistently ranked in the top 10 by the QS World University Rankings . Nationally , it is ranked 1st in the country in both international law and tax law by U.S. News & World Report . NYU Law boasts the best overall faculty in the U.S. according to a recent study , with leading renowned experts in all fields of law . NYU Law is well known for its orientation toward public interest law . Its Root-Tilden-Kern program is a public interest law fellowship .
The United States Ambassador to Luxembourg oversees the U.S. Embassy in that country . He or she supervises the embassy staff in the conduct of diplomatic relations with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and coordination of the activities of U.S. Government personnel serving in Luxembourg as well as official visitors . Under the ambassador 's direction , the embassy staff provides consular services , including visas for visitors to the United States and passports for United States citizens in Luxembourg . The United States has maintained diplomatic relations with Luxembourg since 1903 . From 1903 to 1923 the Ambassador to the Netherlands served concurrently as Ambassador to Luxembourg . From 1923 until World War II the Ambassador to Belgium also served as Ambassador to Luxembourg . During World War II the United States maintained diplomatic relations with the Luxembourg government in exile . After World War II , the United States returned to appointing the Ambassador to Belgium concurrently as the Ambassador to Luxembourg . Since 1956 the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg has been appointed separately from the Ambassador to the Netherlands . This is a complete list of United States envoys and ambassadors appointed to Luxembourg since 1903 :
David Melech Friedman ( born August 8 , 1958 ) is an American bankruptcy lawyer and the United States Ambassador to Israel . He joined the law firm Kasowitz , Benson , Torres & Friedman ( then known as Kasowitz , Hoff , Benson & Torres ) in 1994 , where he met and represented Donald Trump , then chairman and president of The Trump Organization . He served as an advisor to Trump during his successful presidential campaign . In December 2016 , President-elect Trump 's transition team announced that Friedman was Trump 's nominee for ambassador . His nomination was met with support from conservative Israeli and Jewish American activist groups , and opposition from liberal advocacy organizations , particularly J Street . He was confirmed by the full Senate on March 23 , 2017 , with a 52-46 vote , officially sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence on March 29 and presented his credentials on May 15 .
The United States Ambassador to Israel is the official representative of the President of the United States to the head of state of Israel . Until 1948 the area that is now the state of Israel had been under British administration as part of the League of Nations/United Nations British Mandate for Palestine . On May 14 , 1948 , the British government unilaterally terminated the mandate . On the same day , the Jewish Agency , under future Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion , declared independence and named the country Israel . The United States immediately recognized the nation and moved to establish diplomatic relations . The first U.S. ambassador commissioned to Israel was James Grover McDonald , who presented his credentials to the government of Israel on March 28 , 1949 . The embassy of the United States in Israel is located on 14 David Flusser Street in Jerusalem .
John Sigsbee Rees Shad ( 1923-1994 ) , served as chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 1981 and 1987 . He also served as the ambassador to the Netherlands . He earned degrees from the University of Southern California , the Harvard Business School and the New York University Law School . He said when he was the head of the SEC that he had wanted to spend a third of his life learning , a third earning , and a third serving . He had two children , Leslie Shad and Rees Shad , and was married to Patricia Shad .
The United States diplomatic mission to the Netherlands consists of the embassy located in The Hague and a consular office located in Amsterdam . In 1782 , John Adams was appointed America 's first Minister Plenipotentiary to Holland . According to the United States Department of State , the same year came formal recognition by the Netherlands of the United States as a separate and independent nation , along with badly needed financial help that indicated faith in its future . These loans from the United Provinces , which have been called the Marshall Plan in reverse , were the first the new government received . Adams purchased a home in the Hague at Fluwelen Burgwal 18 ( located within Uilebomen , The Hague Center ) , as the first US embassy . The current American Embassy building in The Hague opened on July 4 , 1959 . It was designed by architect Marcel Breuer . Notable Americans such as former Presidents Adams and John Quincy Adams , General Hugh Ewing and Iraq Envoy L. Paul Bremer have held the title of Ambassador . Besides the embassy , a U.S. consulate-general is located on Curaçao which is responsible for the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean . This consulate is not part of the U.S. diplomatic mission to the Netherlands . April 19 , the day John Adams presented his credentials in the Hague , was declared by President Ronald Reagan to be memorialized as Dutch-American Friendship Day .
David Pressman ( born 1977 ) was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs . He was nominated by President Obama , and confirmed by the Senate on September 17 , 2014 . Ambassador Pressman represented the United States at the United Nations Security Council and in related negotiations . After the end of the Obama administration , Ambassador Pressman joined the international law firm of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP where he works in various areas of mostly international and US Constitutional law . Pressman represented Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman during the impeachment proceedings against President Trump .
The United Nations ( UN ) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security , develop friendly relations among nations , achieve international cooperation , and be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations . It is the largest , most familiar , most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world . The UN is headquartered on international territory in New York City ; other main offices are in Geneva , Nairobi , Vienna and The Hague . The UN was established after World War II with the aim of preventing future wars , succeeding the ineffective League of Nations . On 25 April 1945 , 50 governments met in San Francisco for a conference and started drafting the UN Charter , which was adopted on 25 June 1945 and took effect on 24 October 1945 , when the UN began operations . Pursuant to the Charter , the organization 's objectives include maintaining international peace and security , protecting human rights , delivering humanitarian aid , promoting sustainable development , and upholding international law . At its founding , the UN had 51 member states ; this number grew to 193 in 2011 , representing the vast majority of the world 's sovereign states . The organization 's mission to preserve world peace was complicated in its early decades by the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union and their respective allies . Its missions have consisted primarily of unarmed military observers and lightly armed troops with primarily monitoring , reporting and confidence-building roles . UN membership grew significantly following widespread decolonization beginning in the 1960s . Since then , 80 former colonies have gained independence , including 11 trust territories that had been monitored by the Trusteeship Council . By the 1970s , the UN 's budget for economic and social development programmes far outstripped its spending on peacekeeping .
Robert Patrick John Finn ( born December 19 , 1945 ) is a scholar of Turkish Studies and International Relations , and was the first United States ambassador to Afghanistan in more than 20 years , from March 22 , 2002 until August 1 , 2003 . He was succeeded by Zalmay Khalilzad .
The United States Ambassador to Afghanistan is the official representative of the President of the United States to the head of state of Afghanistan . The United States recognized Afghanistan , then under the rule of King Amānullāh , on July 26 , 1921 . Diplomatic relations were established in 1935 . The first ambassador appointed to Afghanistan was William H. Hornibrook , who was concurrently commissioned to Persia , as Iran was known then , and resident in Tehran . Until 1942 , the U.S . Ambassador to Persia/Iran was also the Ambassador to Afghanistan . The U.S. Legation at Kabul was established on June 6 , 1942 , with Charles W. Thayer as Chargé dAffaires ad interim . Cornelius Van Hemert Engert presented his credentials to the government of Afghanistan on July 2 , 1942 , as the first envoy solely accredited to Afghanistan . Ambassador Adolph Dubs was assassinated in a botched kidnapping attempt in 1979 . For the next ten years no ambassador was appointed ; only a series of chargés daffaires represented the U.S. in Kabul . The embassy at Kabul was closed on January 30 , 1989 , due to concerns that the new regime would not be able to maintain security and protect diplomats following the final departure of Soviet forces from the country . Following the overthrow of the Taliban government , the U.S. Liaison Office in Kabul opened on December 17 , 2001 , with Ambassador James Dobbins serving as Director .
Patricia McMahon Hawkins ( born 1949 ) is a United States career foreign service officer and member of the U.S. State Department . She was the United States Ambassador to Togo from 2008 to 2011 .
The New York University College of Arts & Science ( commonly referred to as C.A.S . ) is the primary liberal arts college of New York University . As the oldest and largest school at NYU , the College of Arts & Science currently enrolls 7,660 undergraduate students ( as of 2017 ) . The College of Arts and Science offers Bachelor of Arts ( B.A . ) and Bachelor of Science ( B.S . ) degrees .
This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Togo . Until 1955 French Togoland was a United Nations Trust Territory mandated by the U.N. to France . In 1955 , French Togoland became the administrative Republic of Togo within the French Community ( Communauté française ) , although it retained its UN trusteeship status . In 1960 Togo severed its constitutional ties with France , shed its UN trusteeship status , and became fully independent as the Togolese Republic . The United States immediately recognized Togo and moved to establish diplomatic relations . The State Department established an embassy in Yaoundé in nearby Cameroon on January 1 , 1960 , with Bolard More as Chargé d'affaires ad interim . The Yaoundé embassy was simultaneously accredited to Togo . The embassy in Lomé was established on April 27 , 1960 , with Jesse M. MacKnight as Chargé dAffaires ad interim . On June 23 , 1960 , Leland Barrows was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Cameroon with separate accreditation to Togo while remaining resident in Yaoundé . In 1961 a separate ambassador was appointed solely for Togo and resident at Lomé . The United States has maintained diplomatic relations with Togo since that date . The United States Embassy in Togo is located in Lomé .
Fred J. Eckert ( born 6 May 1941 ) is an American political and diplomatic figure and writer . He is best known for his unwavering conservative principles while holding public office and his early advocacy during the 1970s of causes that many years later became major public policy issues , such as public pension reform and replacing lifelong teacher tenure with renewable contracts . He is also known for the high regard in which he was held by President Ronald Reagan , who said of him : He has a quality that is all too rare in the political world - he has political courage ; I am a personal witness to that courage . Reagan referred to Eckert as a good friend and valued advisor and a man of great experience and wisdom - one of a kind . Eckert was one of the few of Reagan 's legion of backers whom he asked to call him Ron , a practice Eckert declined to follow after he became President .
The United States Ambassador to Fiji is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of Fiji . The ambassador is concurrently the ambassador to Kiribati , Nauru , Tonga , and Tuvalu , while residing in Suva , Fiji .
Heather Mary Hodges ( born 1946 ) is a career United States foreign service officer . She has been the United States Ambassador to Moldova and the United States Ambassador to Ecuador .
The United States Ambassador to Moldova is the official representative of the President of the United States to the head of state of Moldova .
Clifford Michael Sobel ( born 1949 , Brooklyn , New York ) is an American business executive , financier , Republican fundraiser , U.S. diplomat and former ambassador . He served as United States Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2001 to 2005 and United States Ambassador to Brazil from 2006 to 2009 . Since 1994 , Sobel has been chairman and chief executive officer of SJJ Investment Corp . He is managing partner and founder of the investment firm Valor Capital Group in New York and Brazil . Sobel is the independent director of Diamond Offshore Drilling , Inc .
The New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business ( commonly referred to as Stern ) is the business school of New York University . It is also a founding member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business . Established as the School of Commerce , Accounts and Finance in 1900 , the school changed its name in 1988 in honor of Leonard N. Stern , an alumnus and benefactor of the school . One of the most prestigious business schools in the world , it is also one of the oldest . The school is located on NYU 's Greenwich Village campus next to the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences . Its alumni include some of the wealthiest in the world , as well as top business leaders and executives .
The following is a list of Ambassadors of the United States , or other chiefs of mission , to Brazil . The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary .
Herbert Wolcott Bowen ( 29 February 1856 - 29 May 1927 ) was an American diplomat and poet . He served as ambassador to Venezuela , and consul-general in Spain and Persia .
The New York University Tandon School of Engineering ( commonly referred to as Tandon ) is the engineering and applied science school of New York University . Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United States . The school dates back to 1854 when its predecessor institutions , the University of the City of New York School of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute , were founded . The school was renamed in 2015 in honor of NYU Trustees Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon following their donation of $ 100 million to the school . The school 's main campus is in Brooklyn 's MetroTech Center , an urban academic-industrial research park . It is one of several engineering schools that were founded based on a European polytechnic university model in the 1800s , in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States . It has been a key center of research in the development of microwave , wireless , radar , electronics in general , polymers , industrial engineering and operations research and the US space program .
The following is a list of United States ambassadors , or other chiefs of mission , to Venezuela . The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary . The ambassadors are posted at the Embassy of the United States , Caracas .
George Walter Landau ( March 4 , 1920 - October 9 , 2018 ) was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Paraguay , Chile , and Venezuela .
Mary Carlin Yates ( born 1946 in Portland , Oregon ) is a Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. State Department and was one of two deputy commanders of the United States Africa Command until June 2009 . Yates earned her BA in English from Oregon State University and earned a Master 's in Comparative East West Humanities from New York University , where she pursued her doctoral studies in Asian Affairs . She served as U.S . Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi from 1999 until June 2002 , and as U.S . Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana from November 2002 to 2005 . Yates was named on September 28 , 2008 as the Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activities , United States Africa Command ( USAFRICOM ) , headquartered in Stuttgart , Germany where she served most recently as the Principal Advisor to the Commander , United States European Command ( USEUCOM ) . She has earned two State Department Superior Honor Awards and two Meritorious Honor Awards . Her husband John M. Yates is U.S. Special Envoy to Somalia . Yates also currently sits on the Atlantic Council 's Board of Directors .
The following is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Ghana . The embassy in Accra was established March 6 , 1957 , with Donald W. Lamm in charge as chargé d'affaires .
Kenneth Lee Brown ( born December 6 , 1936 ) was a U.S. ambassador to Ghana , Cote d'Ivoire , and Congo-Brazzaville . As a career Foreign Service Officer from 1961 to 1995 , he served at the American Embassy in Brussels and six posts in Africa . At the Department of State he held the positions of Deputy Director of UN Political Affairs , Associate Spokesman , Director of Central African Affairs , and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa . Brown was nominated as ambassador to Congo in November 1981 by President Ronald Reagan . He was later chosen as ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire in August 1989 and as ambassador to Ghana in June 1992 , both times by President George H. W. Bush . In May 2001 , he became President of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training , an NGO that promotes understanding of American diplomacy , supports training of US foreign affairs personnel , and conducts oral histories of former Foreign Service officers and ambassadors as part of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection at the Library of Congress . After leaving the Foreign Service , Ambassador Brown became Director of the Dean Rusk Program in International Studies at Davidson College from 1995 to 2001 . He has a BA in International Relations from Pomona College , an MA in International Relations from Yale University , an MA in Political Science from New York University , and a Ph.D. in Political Sociology from Cape Coast University in Ghana .
Charles Lewis English ( born 1951 ) is a former United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina . Charles L. English was sworn in as United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina on September 20 , 2007 and presented his credentials to the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina on October 4 , 2007 . Prior to his appointment , Ambassador English served as the Deputy Director of the Office of Career Development and Assignments in the Bureau of Human Resources at the U.S. Department of State from 2006 to 2007 . As Deputy Director , he was responsible for effecting the assignments of all members of the U.S. Foreign Service . From 2003 to 2006 , Ambassador English served as the Director of the Office of South Central European Affairs in the Bureau for European and Eurasian Affairs , where he was responsible for coordinating the State Department 's approach to relations with countries in the Western Balkans . From 2002 to 2003 , he served as the Director of the Office of European Union and Regional Affairs in the Bureau for European and Eurasian Affairs . Ambassador English received a Bachelor 's Degree from Princeton University and studied international economics at the graduate level at New York University . Ambassador English is also a graduate of Xaverian High School in Brooklyn , New York . He is married to Patricia Espey-English and they have two children , Cathryn and Matthew .
This is a list of United States ambassadors to Bosnia and Herzegovina . The United States recognized the independence of Bosnia-Herzegovina on April 7 , 1992 , and announced the establishment of diplomatic relations August 6 , 1992 . A U.S. Embassy was established on November 10 , 1993 , on the premises of the Vienna embassy . The embassy in Sarajevo was established on July 4 , 1994 .
Max Kampelman , born Max Kampelmacher ( November 7 , 1920 - January 25 , 2013 ) , was an American diplomat .
Elliott Percival Skinner ( June 20 , 1924 - April 1 , 2007 ) was an American anthropologist and United States Ambassador to the Republic of Upper Volta . Born in Port of Spain , Trinidad , Skinner came to the United States in 1943 . He enlisted in the United States Army in 1944 and fought in World War II , which later allowed him to obtain citizenship . Skinner earned a bachelor 's degree from New York University in 1951 . He then attended Columbia University , where he earned a masters degree in 1952 and a doctorate in 1955 . Skinner became a professor at Columbia in 1954 . Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him ambassador to Upper Volta from 1966 to 1969 . Skinner learned the More ( Language ) spoken the Mossi while living in Upper Volta . In 1972 , Skinner became the first African-American department chair at Columbia as well as the first African-American tenured by the university in 1963 . He wrote several books on Africa , some focusing on U.S. policy . On April 21 , 2007 , Skinner died of heart failure at his home in Washington , D.C . He was 82 years old .
This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Burkina Faso ( formerly Upper Volta ) . Until 1960 Upper Volta was a French possession as a part of French West Africa . In 1958 Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French Community ( Communauté française ) , and achieved independence as the Republic of Upper Volta on August 5 , 1960 . The United States recognized Upper Volta immediately and assigned its first envoy on the nation 's independence day , August 5 . The envoy , Donald R. Norland , had presented his credentials as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim on the previous day , August 4 , to take effect on the day of independence . Norland was also the Chargé d'Affaires a.i . to the newly independent nations : Ivory Coast ( Côte d'Ivoire ) , Dahomey ( Benin ) and Niger while resident in Abidjan . The first ranking ambassador , R. Borden Reams , was appointed October 17 , 1960 . He was also the ambassador to the aforementioned countries while resident in Abidjan . On December 31 , 1960 , an embassy was established in Ouagadougou with a resident Chargé d'affaires . On May 29 , 1961 , the first ambassador solely accredited to Upper Volta was appointed . On August 4 , 1984 , the nation 's name was changed to Burkina Faso .
William Henry Draper Jr. ( 1894- 1974 ) was a 20th-century American army officer , banker , government official , and diplomat .
The United States Permanent Representative to NATO ( commonly called the U.S . Ambassador to NATO ) is the official representative of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization . The Representative has the rank of full ambassador and is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate . The full official title of the Representative is United States Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization , with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary . The current U.S . Ambassador to NATO is Kay Bailey Hutchison , a former U.S . Senator from Texas . The first Representative was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 .
Charles A. Heimbold Jr. ( born May 27 , 1933 ) is an American businessman and diplomat , who was Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company , and as U.S . Ambassador to Sweden . His son is American musician Pete Francis Heimbold , of Dispatch fame .
The United States Ambassador to Sweden ( Swedish : USA : s ambassadör i Sverige ) serves as the official diplomatic representative of the President and the Government of the United States of America to the King and the Government of the Kingdom of Sweden . Diplomatic relations between Sweden and the United States began with the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1783 . In addition , from 1814 to 1905 the United States Chief of Mission in Sweden also represented United States interest with respect to Norway ; as the latter was during that period of time aligned with Sweden , for purposes of foreign relations , in the Union between Sweden and Norway . The contemporary tendency of American presidents ( of both parties ) is to appoint keen political fundraisers and/or prominent supporters from previous presidential election campaigns , rather than promoting professional members of the United States Foreign Service to the top position . The current Ambassador is Ken Howery , who presented his credentials on November 7 , 2019 .