- Bob Ross
Bob Ross , Principal, Ambassador of Golf bross@hawkpointegolf.com Serving as Hawk Pointe's director of golf, Bob Ross developed a passion for the game of golf as a young boy when he first worked as a golf caddie at a course that neighbored his family's home. - Yitzhak Rabin
"'"', <font color="white">a</font>(March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel with two periods in office, from 1974 until 1977 and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. In 1994 during his second term Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, for their efforts towards peace which culminated in the Oslo Accords. - Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he specializes in issues of U.S. leadership and foreign policy. He is co-founder with William Kristol of the Project for a New American Century. Before joining the Carnegie Endowment, he worked in the State Department as a member of the Policy Planning Staff and as principal speech writer for Secretary of State George P. Shultz during the Reagan Administration. - John Holmes
Sir John Holmes, GCVO, KBE, CMG, was born in Preston, in the north of England, in April 1951. Following his education at Preston Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, he entered the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1973. After spending three years as a desk officer in London, including a period of temporary duty at the British Mission to the UN in New York, he was appointed to the British Embassy in Moscow as a 3rd Secretary Chancery, … - Charlene Barshefsky
Charlene Barshefsky served as United States Trade Representative, the country's top trade negotiator, from 1997 to 2001. Prior to that, she was the Deputy USTR from 1993 to 1997. Under Bill Clinton in 1999, she was the primary negotiator with China's Zhu Rongji, laying out the terms for China's eventual entry into the World Trade Organization. She is a now a partner at the Washington, … - Anne W. Patterson
Anne Woods Patterson (born 1949 in Fort Smith, Arkansas), was the acting United States Ambassador to the United Nations in 2005. She took over after former Ambassador Senator John Danforth resigned, effective on January 20 2005, and continued until John Bolton assumed the position on August 1 of the same year. On March 7 2005, President George W. Bush nominated Bolton to become the permanent U.N. Ambassador. - Daniel Fried
Daniel Fried took the oath of office as Assistant Secretary of State on May 5, 2005. Before taking the helm of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Ambassador Fried served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council since January 22, 2001. Ambassador Fried was Principal Deputy Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States from May 2000 until January 2001. - Garner Ted Armstrong
Garner Ted Armstrong (February 9, 1930 - September 15, 2003) was an American evangelist and the son of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, at the time a Sabbatarian organization that taught strict observance of a seventh-day sabbath, holy days typically associated with the Jewish faith, and other observances derived from the Old Testament scriptures. - Daniel C. Kurtzer
Daniel Kurtzer , a Career-Minister in the Senior Foreign Service until 2005, has been intimately involved in Middle East peace negotiations and the formulation of U.S. policy in the Middle East for almost three decades. - Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Slatkin (born September 1 1944) is an American conductor. His father was the violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String Quartet, Felix Slatkin, and his mother was Eleanor Aller, the cellist with the quartet. His brother, Frederick Zlotkin, is a cellist. He studied at Indiana University and Los Angeles City College before attending the Juilliard School where he studied conducting under Jean Paul Morel. His conducting debut came in 1966, and in 1968, … - James Walker
James Walker (August 16, 1794 - December 23, 1874) was the President of Harvard College from 1853 to 1860. - Lucien Bouchard
Lucien Bouchard, PC, B.Sc, LL.B (born December 22, 1938 in Saint-Coeur-de-Marie, Quebec, Canada) is a Quebec lawyer, diplomat and politician. He was the Leader of Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1996, and Premier of Quebec from January 29, 1996 to March 8, 2001. He became a central figure for the "oui" side in the 1995 Quebec referendum. He is the brother of noted historian Gérard Bouchard, … - John E. Herbst
Prior to becoming Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Mr. Herbst had recently returned from a three-year assignment as the U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem. Previously, he served as the Principal Deputy to the Ambassador at Large for the Newly Independent States, Director of the Office of Independent States and Commonwealth Affairs, and Director of Regional Affairs in the Near East Bureau. - Vladimir Spivakov
Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov (born September 12 1944 in Ufa) is a leading Russian conductor and violinist best known for his work with the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra. At the age of 13, Spivakov was awarded the first prize at the major conductor contest in Moscow. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Yuri Yankelevich and debuted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1979. The same year he established the "Moscow Virtuosi" chamber orchestra. - Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrell (February 27, 1912 - November 7, 1990) was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. It was also discovered posthumously that Durrell never had British citizenship. His most famous work is the tetralogy "The Alexandria Quartet". - Aga Khan IV
Karīm al-Hussaynī, Āgā Khān IV KBE CC GCC -- (born December 13, 1936) is the current (49th) Imām of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims. He has been in this position, and held the title of Aga Khan, since July 11, 1957. The Ismailis are ethnically and culturally diverse and reside in over 25 countries around the world. A modern Muslim leader, the Aga Khan is responsible for the interpretation of the faith for his followers and as part of the office of the Imamate, … - Tame Iti
Tāme Iti is a Tūhoe Māori activist who is known for publicity stunts protesting policies of the New Zealand government. - Lino Gutierrez
Lino Gutierrez is an American diplomat. He served as US Ambassador to Argentina from Sep 2003 through July 2006. His was succeeded by Earl Anthony Wayne. Gutiérrez entered the United States Foreign Service in 1977 and served in Latin America, Europe and the Department of State. He has served as International Affairs Advisor at the National War College (2002), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the State Department (1999-2001), … - Ronald E. Neumann
Ronald E. Neumann (b. 1945) is the current United States Ambassador to Afghanistan and previously served as ambassador to Algeria (1994-1997), and Bahrain (2001-2004). He is the son of former ambassador Robert G. Neumann and traveled extensively after college in Afghanistan while his father was ambassador there. He pronounces his last name Newmann (without the Germanic "neu") and his name is sometimes seen spelled that way. Mr. - Susan McCaw
Previously, Mrs. McCaw was President of COM Investments and Managing Partner of Eagle Creek Capital, private investment firms located in the state of Washington. Prior to this, she was Principal at Robertson Stephens & Company, a San Francisco-based investment bank where she was responsible for financing emerging growth companies in the technology industry. - Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern was one of the finest violin virtuosi of the twentieth century. Born in Kremenetz, Ukraine on July 21, 1920, Isaac Stern was ten months old when his family moved to San Francisco. He received his first music lessons from his mother before enrolling at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1928. He studied there until 1931, then studied privately with Louis Persinger. - George C. McGhee
George Crews McGhee (1912- July 4, 2005) was a career diplomat in the United States foreign service. He served as ambassador to Turkey and ambassador to Germany. In 1989, McGhee donated his villa in Alanya, Turkey to Georgetown University. Today it is known as The McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, and welcomes students each spring. - Michael E. Parmly
Michael E. Parmly is the Chief of Mission of the United States Interests Section in Havana, or USINT, a post he has held since September 10, 2005. He succeeded James Cason at this post. - Levko Lukyanenko
Levko Lukyanenko ; also Levko Lukianenko is a Ukrainian politician, and Soviet dissident. Lukyanenko was born on August 24, 1927 in the Khrypivka village of Chernihiv Oblast. Following graduation from the Law Department of Moscow State University and after serving in the Russian army, he worked in district party committees in Lviv Oblast. In 1959 in the time of the Khrushchev Thaw, … - Jack Dyer Crouch II
Dr. Jack Dyer Crouch II was confirmed by the Senate on May 21, 2004, and sworn into office as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Romania on May 28, 2004. He was formerly Associate Professor of Defense & Strategic Studies at Southwest Missouri State University. From August 6, 2001 through October 31, 2003, Dr. Crouch was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy. - Alva Myrdal
Alva Myrdal was an UN diplomat, Nobel laureate and Swedish government minister who made a major contribution by promoting social welfare, women's rights and advocating nuclear disarmament. In 1949, Myrdal became the first woman to be appointed head of a department in the UN when she took office as principal director of the United Nations Department of Social Welfare. Myrdal was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1982. - Roger D. Pierce
Mr. Pierce is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister Counselor. Mr. Pierce entered duty in the Foreign Service in 1978. He served abroad as consular officer in Mexico City, Mexico (1978-1979), Santiago, Chile (1979-1981), and as Chief of the Consular Section in Calcutta, India (1981-1984) and Istanbul, Turkey (1986-1990). He served as Principal Officer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1990-1994) and Consul General in Cairo, Egypt (1997-2001). - Ambassador Greg Schulte
Mr. Schulte worked for the Secretary of Defense from 1985 to 1992 as Director for Strategic Forces Policy and Assistant for Theater Nuclear Forces Policy. He contributed to two nuclear weapons treaties, two Presidential Nuclear Initiatives, a Strategic Targeting Review, a Failsafe and Risk Reduction Review, and NATOs Nuclear Planning Group. Mr. Schulte has been a member of the Senior Executive Service since 1992, receiving two Presidential Rank Awards. - H. Carl McCall
Comptroller H. Carl McCall said an audit of the Department of Labor showed that PESH inspections dropped 18 percent between 1993 and 1996, and that only a fraction of the fines have been collected. - Madeleine Korbel Albright
Madeleine Albright (1937 - ) was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As the Nazis invaded that country before World War II, Albright and her family fled and eventually settled in the U.S. She graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and she later received master's and doctorate degrees from Columbia University in New York. By the late 1970s, she was working in the White House for President Jimmy Carter 's national security team. - Ambassador Marc C. Ginsberg
Marc Ginsberg Marc Ginsberg , former United States Ambassador, is currently a member of APCO Worldwide’s International Advisory Council and a senior vice president of the consultancy. He is responsible for coordinating the ongoing strategic client relationships and business planning for APCO throughout the Middle East, including Layalina Arab Television Productions, a private, nonprofit Arab language television production company headquartered in Washington, D.C., and Amman, Jordan. - Ambassador Chas. W. Freeman Jr
Ambassador Chas. W. Freeman, Jr . succeeded Senator George McGovern as President of the Middle East Policy Council on December 1, 1997. Ambassador Freeman was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centered post-Cold War European security system and in reestablishing defense and military relations with China. - Ambassador Ginsberg
Marc Ginsberg Former U.S. Ambassador Marc Ginsberg is an expert in foreign affairs and international relations having served as deputy senior advisor to President Carter on Middle East affairs, and as the White House liaison for Secretary of State Vance. He is a senior vice president of APCO Worldwide and managing director and CEO of Northstar Equity Group, a financial management and consulting affiliate of APCO Worldwide. - Bethany McLean
Bethany McLean : I didn't. Certainly not when I wrote that first piece on Enron. At that time, no one cared. It wasn't like I wrote a story and got calls from other journalists, saying "Good job." I got a few calls, but it was a very underground type of thing - people in the business community mostly. Few other journalists e-mailed me. It wasn't like anybody cared. I didn't go on TV to talk about the story. - Peter Ackerman
Dr Peter Ackerman Peter Ackerman is the Managing Director of Rockport Capital Incorporated, a private investment firm. Since its inception in 1990, Rockport has made numerous direct investments in fields as diverse as movie libraries, publishing, propane distribution, textiles, custom labeling, wax refining, auto part remanufacturing, variable life insurance, SMS integration, and internet-based food retailing. - Richard N. Haass
Richard Haass Richard Haass is President of the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to the Council Dr. Haass was Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell on a broad range of foreign policy concerns. Previously, Dr. Haass served as Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and was a faculty member at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. - Sheri L. Orlowitz
Sheri L. Orlowitz Chairman and CEO Shan Industries, LLC Sheri is the founder and principal owner of Shan Industries, LLC, a holding company that currently operates two manufacturing companies. Accurate Forming, a metal stamping company located in New Jersey and Thermodynamics, a rotational molding company operating in Oklahoma, were acquired from Tyco International in January 2000. - Clark Bane Hutchinson
Clark: But anyway he was not planning to work for Social Security at all, and Daddy said that he never liked to stay, I told you, at any job longer than three years. I: He had been there three years at APW. Clark: At American Public Welfare. So he had accepted the job to be the head of Political Science at University of North Carolina. When Graham was President, I think he is the best President that they ever had at North Carolina. - Lawrence B. Garcia
Lawrence B. Garcia brings to the Firm over 28 years of experience as a practicing attorney which includes the counseling and representation of clients in highly regulated business environments such as healthcare, construction, antitrust, securities, land use and environmental regulation. Mr. Garcia’s practice activities include mergers, acquisitions, commercial transactions, healthcare law, construction law, and facilitated conflict resolutions. - Kenneth M. Blatt
Kenneth M. Blatt Principal Kenneth M. Blatt , is Chief Operating Officer of the Hotel Division of and principal in Caribbean Property Group LLC ("CPG"). He has been with CPG since 2003.
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