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| Affiliation | Nonpartisan |
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| Name | James B. Cunningham |
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, New York , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
00, 1952
(72 years)
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| Contributor | User 13 |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | Deputy Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations
Ambassador Cunningham became Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in December 1999. He is responsible for coordinating the work of the U.S. Mission to the UN and for representing the U.S. at the UN, especially in the Security Council. Much of his time has been devoted to Iraq, peacekeeping, the Middle East, UN reform and, most recently, non-proliferation. He also served as Acting Permanent Representative from the beginning of the Bush administration until September 18, 2001. He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, with the rank of Career Minister.
A member of the Foreign Service since 1975, Ambassador Cunningham has spent much of his career working on European and security affairs, with broad experience in multilateral diplomacy. After initial tours in Stockholm, Washington, Rome and the U.S. Mission to NATO, in the summer of 1988 incoming NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner appointed Ambassador Cunningham as his Deputy Chief of Staff. In January 1999 Woerner elevated him to Chief of Staff, with responsibility for advising the Secretary General on all NATO issues in the context of the unification of Germany and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union, and on the management of the 1,200-member international staff.
Ambassador Cunningham became Deputy Counselor for Political Affairs in the U.S. Mission to the UN in August 1990, just after Iraq invaded Kuwait, and worked on Iraq, Cambodia, UN reform and peacekeeping. In the summer of 1992 he returned to Washington as Deputy Director of the Office of European Security and Political Affairs, and became Director from 1993-1995. He was responsible for many aspects of U.S. policy toward Europe, including U.S. policies in NATO and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and arms control in Europe. After a year in the Senior Seminar, the U.S. Government�s premier development program for senior officers in the State Department and other foreign affairs agencies, he became Deputy Chief of Mission in Rome in 1996, working on the U.S. � Italy relationship and managing the 700-member U.S. mission in Italy until August 1999.
Ambassador Cunningham was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University, with degrees in political science and psychology. He is married to Leslie Genier of Mineville, New York. They have two daughters, Emma and Abigail. His languages are Italian, French, and Spanish. He is the recipient of the Department�s Superior, Merit and Performance awards, of the National Performance Review�s Hammer Award for innovation in government management, and of the President�s Meritorious Service Award.
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