1. Richard L Morningstar was born on 1945 and is an American diplomat.
14 Facts About Richard Morningstar
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Richard Morningstar was former United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2012 to 2014.
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Richard Morningstar was formerly Special Envoy of the United States Secretary of State for Eurasian Energy.
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Currently, Ambassador Morningstar is the founding director and chairman of the Global Energy Center at the Atlantic Council.
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Richard Morningstar serves as a senior advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group, a global business strategy firm.
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Richard Morningstar then served as CEO of Costar Corporation, and since 1990 as the chairman of the board.
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Since June 1993, Richard Morningstar served as senior vice president for Policy and Investment Development at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
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On 20 April 2009, Ambassador Richard Morningstar was named to the position of the Special Envoy of the United States Secretary of State for Eurasian Energy.
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In that capacity Richard Morningstar represented the United States at the signing ceremony of the intergovernmental agreement of the Nabucco pipeline.
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Richard Morningstar has strongly opposed the possible participation of Iran in the Nabucco project.
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On 27 April 2012, Richard Morningstar was nominated for the US Ambassadorship in Azerbaijan.
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Richard Morningstar gave a speech in defense of Free Thought University on April 11,2013, a day after it was closed by the government of Azerbaijan.
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In 2014 Richard Morningstar was named director of the Atlantic Council's New Global Energy Center.
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Richard Morningstar is married to Faith Pierce Morningstar, a former board member of the democracy promotion and human rights group Freedom House, with two sons and two daughters.