PROVIDENCE – Brown University today announced the appointment of Richard C. Holbrooke, a former U.S. ambassador and assistant secretary of state, to a five-year term as a professor-at-large at the Watson Institute for International Studies.
His duties will include delivering lectures, participating in various symposia, collaborating with faculty and acting as informal adviser to Brown President Ruth J. Simmons, as well as working with students, especially in international relations and history.
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“The four years I spent at Brown were among the most important of my life,” said Holbrooke, a member of the university’s Class of 1962. “I look forward to getting to know a new generation of students and to offer something back to an institution that gave me so much.”
Besides his undergraduate degree, he has received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the university, in 1997, and the Brown Alumni Association’s highest honor, the Roger Williams Award, in 1996.
“During a long and distinguished career, Richard Holbrooke has represented the interests of his country with great skill and dedication,” Simmons said. “… I am pleased to welcome him back to campus in this new role.”
Holbrooke served as assistant secretary of state during the Carter and Clinton administrations, and as ambassador to Germany and to the United Nations during the Clinton administration. He participated in the 1978 normalization of U.S.-China relations, and is widely considered to have been the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton accord, which ended the war in Bosnia.
He currently serves as chairman of the Asia Society, dedicated to strengthening U.S.-Asian relations; CEO of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; founding chairman of the American Academy in Berlin; vice chairman of Perseus LLC, a private equity firm; and author of a monthly column for the Washington Post. He also has served as a member of the Watson Institute’s board of overseers.
Additional information is available at www.brown.edu.
