Anthony Lake

William Anthony Kirsopp "Tony" Lake (born April 2, 1939) is an American politician, author, academic, and former American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and political advisor.

Lake was the executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). He has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates. He served as National Security Advisor under U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. Lake is known as being one of the individuals who developed the policy that led to the resolution of the Bosnian War.Newsweek, Feb 22, 1993

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.Georgetown University Faculty Bio.

Lake converted from Christianity to Judaism.www.bloomberg.com

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Other websites

 An article about Lake's conversion to Judaism, and how he went from being Bill Clinton's National Security Advisor to a supporter of Barack Obama.
 Lake's Georgetown Homepage
 Source Watch entry for Anthony Lake 
 National Security Archive on Nixon's consideration of use of nuclear weapons in Viet Nam and Anthony Lake's role
 A blog post on the "Rubin Lake Incident" in Guam
 UN Biography Anthony Lake


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