Cameron Munter
American diplomat
Cameron Munter (born 1954) is a retired American diplomat, academic, and executive who now lives in Prague. As a career diplomat, he was ambassador to Pakistan and to Serbia, served two tours in Iraq, and spent years contributing, in foreign and domestic assignments, to the reunification of Europe after the end of the Cold War. After his retirement from the Foreign Service, he became president and CEO of the EastWest Institute in New York after teaching at Columbia and Pomona.
Early life and education
Munter was born in California in 1954, graduating from Claremont High School in 1972. He attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, graduated magna cum laude in 1976 with a B.A.,[6] and the universities of Freiburg and Marburg in Germany. He received a PhD in modern European history in 1983 from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Postgraduate work
Munter taught European history at the University of California in Los Angeles (1982–1984) and directed European Studies at the Twentieth Century Fund in New York (1984–1985) before joining the Foreign Service.
Career
Munter served as U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan from 2010 to 2012, during the time of the raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed. He was U.S. Ambassador to Serbia from 2007 to 2009, during which time Kosovo declared its independence. A career Foreign Service Officer, Munter was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, from August 2005 to June 2007.
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