Peter Galbraith
| Peter Galbraith | |
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| Member of the Vermont Senate from the Windham County district |
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In office January 5, 2011 – January 7, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Peter Shumlin |
| Succeeded by | Becca Balint |
| United States Ambassador to Croatia | |
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In office June 28, 1993 – January 3, 1998 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | William Montgomery |
| Personal details | |
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Peter Woodard Galbraith December 31, 1950 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Anne O'Leary (Divorced) Tone Bringa |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University St Catherine's College, Oxford Georgetown University |
Peter Woodard Galbraith (born December 31, 1950) is an American author, academic, commentator, politician, policy advisor, and former United States diplomat.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he helped uncover Saddam Hussein's gassing of the Kurds. From 1993 to 1998, he served as the first U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, where he was co-mediator of the 1995 Erdut Agreement that ended the Croatian War of Independence. He served in East Timor's first transitional government, successfully negotiating the Timor Sea Treaty. As an author and commentator, Galbraith, a longtime advocate of the Kurdish people, has argued for Iraq to be "partitioned" into three parts, allowing for Kurdistan independence. Beginning in 2003, Galbraith acted as an advisor to the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq, helping to influence the drafting process of the Iraqi Constitution in 2005; he was later criticized for failing to fully disclose major financial interests relevant to this role. In 2009, Galbraith was appointed United Nations' Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, where he contributed to exposing the fraud that took place in the 2009 presidential election in Afghanistan before being fired in a dispute over how to handle that fraud.
Galbraith served as a Democratic Vermont State Senator from Windham County from 2011 to 2015, and was a candidate for Governor of Vermont in 2016. He is on the Board of Directors of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, the research arm of the Council for a Livable World.
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