Ambassador Robert E. Hunter

Ambassador Robert E. Hunter is Senior Advisor at RAND in Washington, D.C., President of the Atlantic Treaty Association, and Chairman of the Council for a Community of Democracies. From 1993-98, he was U.S. Ambassador to NATO and also represented the United States to the Western European Union. He was a leading architect of the "new" NATO and co-author of its Partnership for Peace. He negotiated 9 NATO airstrike decisions for Bosnia and the Implementation and Stabilization Forces (IFOR/SFOR). Earlier, Ambassador Hunter was Vice President of the Center for Strategic Studies and served as director of West European Affairs and Middle East Affairs at the U.S. National Security Council (1977-81). He served in the White House during the Johnson Administration. He is author of more than 750 publications and was educated at Wesleyan University (BA) and the London School of Economics (PhD).