Karl Eikenberry
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Lieutenant General (ret.) Karl W. Eikenberry |
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Ambassador Eikenberry at Stanford University in 2011
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| United States Ambassador to Afghanistan | |
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In office April 29, 2009 – July 25, 2011 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | William Braucher Wood |
| Succeeded by | Ryan Crocker |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 10, 1951 |
| Spouse(s) | Ching Eikenberry |
| Residence | Foster City, CA |
| Alma mater |
United States Military Academy (B.S.) Harvard University (M.A.) Stanford University (M.A.) |
| Military service | |
| Nickname(s) | Karl |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army
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| Rank |
 Lieutenant General
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| Battles/wars | War in Afghanistan |
Karl Winfrid Eikenberry (born November 10, 1951) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan from April 2009 to July 2011. He is currently the Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow and Director of the U.S. Asia Security Initiative at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. He is also a professor of the practice and is an affiliated faculty member at the FSI Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and the The Europe Center at Stanford University.
In addition to his work at Stanford, Eikenberry is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences where he co-directs the Academy's multiyear project on civil wars, violence, and international responses, and is a member of the Academy's Commission on Language Learning. He serves on the board of The Asia Foundation, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for International Relations and Politics and the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. He also is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the Council of American Ambassadors.
Eikenberry was born in 1951 and graduated from Goldsboro High School in Goldsboro, North Carolina, in 1969. He then attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant upon graduation in 1973.
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