The Foreign Service Journal, December 2021

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | DECEMBER 2021 21 of mission in Honduras (1981-1985), Mexico (1989- 1993) and the Philippines (1993-1996). After serving as a special representative to what was then the Bureau of American Republics Affairs (now the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs), Ambassador Negro- ponte retired from the Foreign Service in 1997 and worked for McGraw-Hill Companies as executive vice president for global markets for four years. In 2001, President George W. Bush summoned Amb. Negro- ponte back to public service as U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2001- 2004) and ambassador to Iraq (2004-2005). Appointments as Director of National Intelli- gence (2005-2007) and Deputy Secretary of State (2007-2009) followed, before Amb. Negro- ponte retired from government service. During his Foreign Service career, Amb. Negroponte received the highest award that can be conferred by the Secretary of State, the State Department Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award, on two occasions. In 2005, he received the Raymond “Jit” Trainor Award for Distinction in the Conduct of Diplomacy from Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplo- macy. In 2006, he won the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award as well as the George F. Kennan Award for Distinguished Public Service from the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. And in January 2009, President George W. Bush personally conferred the National Security Medal on Amb. Negroponte. After retirement, Amb. Negroponte received two additional awards for his invaluable contributions to diplomacy. In 2014, the American Com- mittees on Foreign Rela- tions presented him with its Distinguished Service Award for the Advancement of Public Discourse in Foreign Policy. And in 2019, the American Academy of Diplomacy chose him for its Walter and Leonore Annenberg Award for Excel- lence in Diplomacy. Amb. Negroponte taught international relations at Yale’s Jackson Institute from 2009 to 2016 and again in 2020-2021. He taught at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University from 2016 to 2018, and from 2018 to 2019 was the James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. Negroponte is now an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Amb. Negroponte serves as chairman emeritus of the Council of the Americas/Americas Society and co-chairman of the U.S.-Philippines Society. He is a past member of the Secretary of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board and has also served as chair- man of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. Amb. Negroponte is married to Diana Villiers Negroponte, the author of Master Negotiator: The Role of James A. Baker, III at the End of the Cold War (Archway Publishing, 2020) and Seeking Peace in El Salvador: The Struggle to Reconstruct a Nation at the End of the Cold War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). They have five children. FSJ Editor-in-Chief Shawn Dorman conducted the following interview with Amb. Negroponte via email in September. John Negroponte in a helicopter in Vietnam when he was a provincial reporting officer at Embassy Saigon, 1964. COURTESYOFJOHND.NEGROPONTE