Peter Galbraith

Peter Galbraith
Member of the Vermont Senate
from the Windham County district
In office
January 5, 2011 – January 7, 2015
Preceded byPeter Shumlin
Succeeded byBecca Balint
United States Ambassador to Croatia
In office
June 28, 1993 – January 3, 1998
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byWilliam Montgomery
Personal details
Born
Peter Woodard Galbraith

(1950-12-31) December 31, 1950 (age 73)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse(s)Sarah Peck Galbraith
Anne O'Leary (divorced)
Tone Bringa (divorced)
Children3
Parent
RelativesJames K. Galbraith (brother)
EducationHarvard University (BA)
St Catherine's College, Oxford (MA)
Georgetown University (JD)

Peter Woodard Galbraith (born December 31, 1950) is an American author, academic, commentator, politician, policy advisor, and former diplomat.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he helped uncover Saddam Hussein's gassing of the Kurds.[1] 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.[2] He served in East Timor's first transitional government, successfully negotiating the Timor Sea Treaty.[nb 1] 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.[5] 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 financial interests relevant to this role.[6][7] 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.[8]

Galbraith served as a Democratic member of the Vermont Senate for Windham County from 2011 to 2015, and was a candidate for governor of Vermont in 2016.[9] He is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation,[10] the research arm of the Council for a Livable World.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Allawi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Former U.S. Ambassadors to Croatia - Embassy of the United States". Zagreb, Croatia. June 28, 1993. Archived from the original on June 17, 2016. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  3. ^ Chesterman, Simon (2001). East Timor in Transition: From Conflict Prevention to State-Building. International Peace Academy. p. 20., quoted in Morrow, Jonathan; White, Rachel (2001). "The United Nations in Transitional East Timor: International Standards and the Reality of Governance". Australian Year Book of International Law. 22: 1.
  4. ^ Gunn, G.C. (2010). Historical Dictionary of East Timor. Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East. Scarecrow Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-8108-7518-0. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  5. ^ Taylor, Adam (June 13, 2014). "People have talked about Iraq breaking up for years. Now it may actually happen". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
  6. ^ Danilovich, A. (2016). Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds: Learning to Live Together. Federalism Studies. Taylor & Francis. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-317-11292-1. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  7. ^ Glanz, James; Gibbs, Walter (November 11, 2009). "U.S. Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil Profits". The New York Times. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference fires was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ledbetter was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ "Board". Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Retrieved September 22, 2016.


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