Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington,D.C.,United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll in 1789 as Georgetown College,it is the oldest Roman Catholic institution of higher education in the United States.
Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments,he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.
Nathaniel Davis was a career diplomat who served in the United States Foreign Service for 36 years. His final years were spent teaching at Harvey Mudd College,one of the Claremont Colleges.
Chester Arthur Crocker is an American diplomat and scholar who served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from June 9,1981,to April 21,1989,in the Reagan administration. Crocker,architect of the U.S. policy of "constructive engagement" towards Southern Africa including apartheid-era South Africa,is credited with setting the terms of Namibian independence.
Cameron Munter is a retired diplomat,academic,and executive who now works as a global consultant. He was President and CEO of the EastWest Institute (EWI) in New York from 2015 to 2019,directing conflict resolution projects in Russia,China,the Middle East,South Asia,and the Balkans. He is currently a senior fellow of the CEVRO Institute in Prague and the Atlantic Council in Washington,and serves on a number of corporate and nonprofit boards.
John Moors Cabot was an American diplomat and U.S. Ambassador to five nations during the Truman,Eisenhower,and Kennedy administrations. He also served as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. He warned repeatedly of the dangers of Soviet communism toward American interests in Latin America.
Nancy Eileen McEldowney is an American academic and diplomat who served as the national security advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris from January 20,2021 to March 21,2022. She was previously a career Foreign Service officer,served as United States ambassador to Bulgaria (2008–2009),and was director of the Foreign Service Institute from February 2013 until June 2017.
Viron Peter Vaky was an American diplomat who was United States Ambassador to Costa Rica (1972–74),Colombia (1974–76),and Venezuela (1976). He was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations.
Alphonse F. La Porta a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service,served as U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia from December 1997 to November 2000. Subsequently,he served as the Political Advisor to the U.S. Commander-in-Chief of the Regional Headquarters Allied Forces in southern Europe from January 2001 to November 2003.
James Daniel Theberge was a United States ambassador to Nicaragua (1975–1977) and Chile (1982–1985).
Ronald Keith McMullen is an American foreign service officer and a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Eritrea 2007–10.
Krishna Raj Urs is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Peru from 2017 to 2020.
Christopher Landau is an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Mexico from 2019 to 2021. He was nominated to the position by President Donald Trump.
Joseph Hunter Guthrie was an American academic philosopher,writer,Jesuit,and Catholic priest. Born in New York City,he entered the Society of Jesus in 1917,and began his studies at Woodstock College. Following his undergraduate and graduate work there,he taught at Jesuit institutions in the Philippines until 1927. Following his ordination in 1930,he received doctorates in theology and philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University and the University of Paris,respectively. He then returned to the United States,where he became a professor of philosophy at Woodstock College and Fordham University.
Arthur Aloysius O'Leary was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit,who served as president of Georgetown University in from 1935 to 1942. Born in Washington,D.C.,he studied at Gonzaga College before entering the Society of Jesus and continuing his education at St. Andrew-on-Hudson and Woodstock College. He then taught at St. Andrew-on-Hudson and Georgetown University,where he eventually became the university's librarian,and undertook a major improvement of the Georgetown University Library. O'Leary then assumed the presidency of the university in the midst of the Great Depression and,later,World War II.
Mark C. Storella a graduate of the Roxbury Latin School,Harvard College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,is Dean of the Leadership and Management School at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) as of May 28,2019. Storella was U.S. Ambassador to Zambia from 2010 to 2013.
Edward Paul Brynn,was a career diplomat,historian and educator. He was the American ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Burkina Faso from 1990 to 1993 and to Ghana from 1995 until 1998.
Ronald Dwight Godard is an American retired diplomat who was a career Foreign Service Officer with the grade of Minister Counselor. He was given the temporary rank of Ambassador in July 1998.
Joseph Gerard Sullivan is an American diplomat who was a career minister in the Senior Foreign Service. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe (2001–2004) and Angola (1998–2001). He was also Principal Officer in Cuba from 1993 to 1996. He was nominated to be Ambassador to Nicaragua but his nomination was not acted upon by the Senate.
