William Green Miller
United States Ambassador to Ukraine
William Green Miller (August 15, 1931 - September 23, 2019) was an American scholar and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine under Bill Clinton, from 1993 to 1998.
Education
He went to college and graduate school at Williams College in 1953, the University of Oxford and Harvard University.
Diplomat
In 1959, he joined the United States Foreign Service. From 1959 to 1964, he served as a diplomat in Iran. He then worked as a staffer for Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and in the Senate for John Sherman Cooper.
From 1981 to 1983, he served as Associate Dean and Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. In 1986, he was a Research Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics and became President of the American Committee on United States-Soviet Relations. From 1993 to 1998, he served as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine.
He was a Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and the Middle East Institute. Further, Miller served as the co-Chairman of the Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America and a Director of The Andrei Sakharov Foundation.
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