Cameron Munter | |
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United States Ambassador to Pakistan | |
In office October 2010 – July 2012 |
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President | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Anne W. Patterson |
Succeeded by | Richard Olson |
United States Ambassador to Serbia | |
In office July 26, 2007 – January 19, 2010 |
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President |
George W. Bush Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Michael C. Polt |
Succeeded by | Mary Burce Warlick |
Personal details | |
Born | 1954 (age 62–63) Contra Costa, California |
Spouse(s) | Marilyn Wyatt |
Residence | Islamabad, Pakistan |
Alma mater |
Cornell University Johns Hopkins University |
Profession | Diplomat, Career Ambassador |
Cameron Phelps Munter (born 1954) is CEO & President of The EastWest Institute, a non-governmental organization that focuses on conflict resolution, based in New York. A former American diplomat and career foreign service officer, he was the US Ambassador to Pakistan, from 2010-2012, and previously the US Ambassador to Serbia. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Munter taught European history at the University of California Los Angeles, and also taught at Columbia University School of Law.
Munter was born in California, in 1954, graduating from Claremont High School in 1972. He attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, graduated magna cum laude in 1976 with a B.A.,[6] and the universities of Freiburg and Marburg in Germany. He received a PhD in modern European history in 1983 from Johns Hopkins Universityin Baltimore, Maryland.
Munter taught European history at the University of California in Los Angeles (1982–1984) and directed European Studies at the Twentieth Century Fund in New York (1984–1985) before joining the Foreign Service.
Munter was sworn in as United States Ambassador to the Republic of Serbia on July 26, 2007, and stayed in this position until 2009 when he was transferred to work in Iraq. A career Foreign Service Officer, Munter was Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, from August 2005 to June 2007. He volunteered to lead the first Provincial Reconstruction Team in Mosul, Iraq, from January through July 2006, and then returned to Prague. He came to Prague from Warsaw, Poland, where he served as Deputy Chief of Mission from 2002 to 2005.