Carey Cavanaugh
| Carey Cavanaugh | |
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| United States Ambassador | |
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In office 1993–2001 |
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| Born | 1955 (age 61–62) Jacksonville, Florida, United States |
| Spouse(s) | Laura Kokx (m. 1981) |
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| Residence | Lexington, Kentucky |
| Education |
Russian (B.A.) Government and International Studies (M.A.) (ABD) |
| Alma mater |
University of Florida Notre Dame |
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| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Website | www |
Carey Cavanaugh (born 1955) is a former U.S. Ambassador who is professor of diplomacy and conflict resolution at the University of Kentucky's Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, leading that program as director from 2006-2016. For twenty-two years, he served as a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State. In addition to Washington assignments in the State Department, Pentagon and on Capitol Hill, Ambassador Cavanaugh served in Berlin, Moscow, Tbilisi, Rome, and Bern. In 2016, he was on academic sabbatical with the status of executive-in-residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge's Clare College.
Cavanaugh grew up in the Jacksonville Beaches (primarily Atlantic Beach). His mother—Sylvia Cavanaugh Ponti—was an artist and a writer; his father was a U.S. Navy non-commissioned officer. After his parents' divorce, he moved with his mother to Italy for two years before the family returned to Florida. He began studying Russian in ninth grade at Duncan U. Fletcher High School in Neptune Beach and, after briefly starting with nuclear engineering, majored in Russian at the University of Florida. There he was a member of Delta Chi fraternity. In 1975 he also studied briefly at Leningrad Polytechnical Institute. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in 1976.
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