Earl Anthony Wayne
| Earl Wayne | |
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| United States Ambassador to Mexico | |
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In office September 6, 2011 – July 31, 2015 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Carlos Pascual |
| Succeeded by | Roberta S. Jacobson |
| United States Ambassador to Argentina | |
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In office January 19, 2007 – April 6, 2009 |
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| President |
George W. Bush Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Lino Gutierrez |
| Succeeded by | Vilma Martínez |
| Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs | |
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In office June 1, 2000 – June 3, 2006 |
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| President |
Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Alan Larson |
| Succeeded by | Dan Sullivan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1950 (age 66–67) Sacramento, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley Stanford University Princeton University Harvard University |
Earl Anthony Wayne (born 1950) is an American diplomat. Formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Ambassador to Argentina and Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan, Wayne served nearly four years as Ambassador to Mexico. He was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in August, 2011. He departed Mexico City for Washington July 31, 2015 and retired from the State Department on September 30, 2015. He is currently working with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Atlantic Council, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, HSBC banking corporation, and as an independent consultant. Wayne attained the highest rank in the U.S. diplomatic service: Career Ambassador.
Earl Anthony Wayne was born in Sacramento, California and grew up in nearby Concord, where he graduated from Mt. Diablo High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley (1972) where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, as well as being selected to be a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He continued his studies to earn master's degrees in Political Science from Stanford University (1973) and Princeton University (1975), and a master's degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University (1984). He is known as "Tony" to close acquaintances and is married with two adult children.
A career diplomat since 1975, Wayne first served as a China analyst in the Department of State and was then posted overseas as a political officer in Rabat, Morocco. He was assigned to serve in the Executive Secretariat at the State Department under Secretaries of State Cyrus Vance and Edmund Muskie, in 1980. He worked as Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Alexander Haig and George Shultz, from 1981 to 1983, and was named First Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, 1984–87.
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