William Anthony Kirsopp Lake was born on April 2,1939 and is an American diplomat and political advisor who served as the 17th United States National Security Advisor from 1993 to 1997 and as the 6th Executive Director of UNICEF from 2010 to 2017.
22 Facts About Anthony Lake
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Anthony Lake has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic US presidents and presidential candidates, and served as National Security Advisor under US President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.
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Anthony Lake held the chair of Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC.
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Anthony Lake is the grandson of Kirsopp Anthony Lake, a member of the Church of England clergy who moved to the United States from Oxford, England, in 1914, to teach New Testament studies at Harvard.
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Anthony Lake's father, Gerard Kirsopp Anthony Lake, was a New Deal Democrat, and his mother, Eleanor, a Republican.
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Anthony Lake attended Middlesex School and Harvard College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961.
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Anthony Lake was good friends with Richard Holbrooke whom he met in Vietnam while both of them were in the foreign service.
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Anthony Lake joined the State Department in 1962, serving until 1970 as a Foreign Service Officer.
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Anthony Lake was an assistant to Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
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Anthony Lake later wrote a book critical of Kissinger's approach to Africa.
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Anthony Lake worked for Democratic US Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine in his 1972 presidential campaign.
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When Clinton decided in 1994 to allow Iran to arm the Bosnian army, Anthony Lake admitted he made a mistake when he didn't push to inform Congress of the decision.
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Anthony Lake was a foreign policy adviser for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, having endorsed him over Senator Hillary Clinton, whom he had worked alongside during the Clinton administration.
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Anthony Lake was considered a potential Secretary of State until Senator Clinton was named to the position.
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On March 16,2010, Anthony Lake was named by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as the next Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund, following his nomination by US President Barack Obama.
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Anthony Lake was an advisory board member for the Partnership for a Secure America, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy.
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Anthony Lake has served as chair on the boards of the United States Fund for UNICEF and the Marshall Legacy Institute.
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For many years Anthony Lake served on the Board of Trustees for St Mary's College of Maryland.
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Anthony Lake played key roles in the establishment of the Center for the Study of Democracy at the college, where he served on the advisory board.
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Anthony Lake was raised in the Congregational Church, but recounts that he "embarked on his spiritual journey as a young man," first converting to the Episcopal Church.
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Anthony Lake was married to Antonia Plehn from 1962 to 1995; they had three children.
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In 2000, Anthony Lake began a relationship with investment banker Julie Katzman.