William Eacho
| William Eacho | |
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| United States Ambassador to Austria | |
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In office 2009–2013 |
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| Preceded by | David Girard-diCarlo |
| Succeeded by | Alexa L. Wesner |
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| Born | 1943 (age 73–74) |
| Alma mater |
Duke University Harvard Business School |
William Carlton Eacho III (born 1943) is the former United States Ambassador to Austria. Eacho was nominated by President Barack Obama in June 2009. He was confirmed by the US Senate and sworn in during August 2009. He succeeded David F. Girard-diCarlo as ambassador in 2009 and was succeeded by Alexa Wesner in September 2013. Eacho presently is a co-founder of The Partnership For Responsible Growth, a bipartisan organization advocating for US legislation for revenue-neutral fees on carbon.
In 2014, Eacho became a Visiting Professor of the Practice at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. In 2013, Ambassador Eacho joined the Center for Transatlantic Relations as a Distinguished Fellow, as well as Visiting Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, with an expertise in global energy, environment, and security issues. He formerly served on the Energy and Security Task Force of the International Peace Institute].
Eacho graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a degree in Law and the Economy, a self-designed major combining political science and economics. Prior to attending Harvard Business School, from which he graduated with Distinction in 1979, he was a Financial Analyst in the Corporate Finance department of Hornblower & Weeks, in New York City, and was an Associate with Loeb, Rhoades, Hornblower & Company in Los Angeles.
Eacho was one of Obama’s biggest campaign fundraisers, and he helped raise over $500,000. Eacho and his immediate family also donated $226,000 to federal politics in 2007-08, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-profit, nonpartisan research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks the effects of money and lobbying on elections and public policy.
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