Cameron Munter [email protected]

Cameron Munter is an accomplished diplomat, academic, and executive.

He spent three decades in the U.S. Foreign Service, where he served as ambassador to Pakistan at the time of the Bin Laden raid and to Serbia during the Kosovo independence crisis. He was subsequently president of the EastWest Institute in New York, where he directed global conflict prevention initiatives. He has taught international relations at Pomona College, diplomatic practice at Columbia Law School, and history at UCLA.

He is currently a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council in Washington and Visiting Professor at the Charles University and CEVRO Institute in Prague.

Professional Experience

EastWest Institute, New York, President and CEO, 2015-2019

Pomona College, California, Professor of Practice, 2013-2015

Columbia University School of Law, Visiting Professor, 2012

U.S. Foreign Service, 1985-2012: Ambassador, Islamabad Pakistan, 2010-2012 Deputy Chief of Mission, Baghdad, Iraq, 2009-2010 Ambassador, Belgrade, Serbia, 2007-2009 Provincial Reconstruction Team Leader, Mosul, Iraq, 2006 Deputy Chief of Mission, Prague, Czech Republic, 2005-2007 Deputy Chief of Mission, Warsaw, Poland, 2002-2005 Director for Central Europe, National Security Council, The White House, Washington 1999-2002 Director, Northern European Initiative, State Department, Washington, 1998-1999 Chief of Staff, NATO Enlargement Ratification Office, State Department, Washington, 1997-1998 Political Officer, Bonn, Germany, 1995-1997 Political Officer, Prague, Czech Republic, 1992-1995 Dean Rusk Fellow, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, Washington 1991-1992 Desk Officer for Czechoslovakia, State Department, 1989-1991 Staff Assistant, Bureau of European Affairs, State Department, Washington, 1988- 1989 Economic Officer, Warsaw, Poland, 1986-1988

Education and pre-diplomatic experience

PhD, Modern History, Johns Hopkins University, 1983

BA, German Studies, Cornell University, 1976

Non-degree study at the universities of Freiburg and Marburg, Germany, and Krakow, Poland

Twentieth Century Fund, New York, Program Officer, 1984-1985

University of California, Los Angeles, Visiting Professor of History, 1982-1984

Honors and memberships

Domestic diplomatic awards: Distinguished Honor Award, multiple Superior Honor Awards, U.S. Department of State

Foreign diplomatic awards Gold Medal of the Polish Army

Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Government Service, Johns Hopkins University

Honorary doctoral degrees from Pomona College and Nebraska Wesleyan University

Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Diplomacy

International Advisory Board of McKinnon Center (Occidental College) and Aspen Institute Central Europe (Prague)

Board member, Habib University (Karachi), Just Security (New York), and MTBC (New Jersey)