Holbrooke

Richard C. Holbrooke, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton Accords ending the war in Bosnia, has accepted a five-year term as professor-at-large at Brown University.

A 1962 Brown graduate and a former U.S. ambassador to Germany, Holbrooke will be based at Brown’s Watson Institute for International Studies. He will be in residence periodically, according to a statement issued yesterday by the university.

“During a long and distinguished career, Richard Holbrooke has represented the interests of his country with great skill and dedication. He has worked to secure the peace and well-being of people around the world,” Brown President Ruth J. Simmons said in the statement. “I am pleased to welcome him back to campus in this new role and look forward to his wise counsel on the university’s international activities.”

Holbrooke will deliver lectures, advise students, act as an informal adviser to Simmons and collaborate with faculty, among other things, the university announced today. His work with students will focus on international relations and history.

“I am deeply honored that President Simmons has asked me to return to Brown as a professor-at-large 45 years after I graduated,” Holbrooke said in the statement. “The four years I spent at Brown were among the most important of my life. I look forward to getting to know a new generation of students, and to offer something back to an institution that gave me so much.”

Holbrooke’s diplomatic experience is extensive. President Clinton appointed him in 1993 to serve as U.S. ambassador to Germany and in 1994 to serve as assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian affairs. In 1999, President Clinton appointed him as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations with Cabinet rank.

In the Carter administration, Holbrooke served as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, during the time the United States established full diplomatic relations with China.

Holbrooke is now chairman of the Asia Society, an organization dedicated to strengthening relations between the United States and Asia.; chief executive officer of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which mobilizes the private sector against those diseases; founding chairman of the American Academy in Berlin, which advances U.S.-German cultural exchange; and vice chairman of Perseus LLC, a private-equity firm. He also writes a monthly column for the Washington Post.

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