Richard Holbrooke, the United States’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been working in Afghanistan since 2005. Previously, he served as Ambassador to the United Nations, where he led the negotiations that led to the Dayton Peace Agreement of December 1995. He was appointed by United States President Barack Obama in 2009. Mr
Read more
Holbrooke received his B.A. from Harvard University and his M.A. from Oxford University's Merton College in 1976.
At Oxford, he edited the "Oxford Review" and was a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. Mr. Holbrooke is author of numerous books, including “To End a War” (Random House), winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction; “Thinking About Peace” (Basic Books); “The Art of Leadership” (Knopf); “Barefoot at Appomattox” (Random House); “Renegotiating World Order” (Oxford University Press); and “The Shape of Peace" (Basic Books).
He is also co-author with Roger Rosenblatt of two volumes on international relations: “The Wounded Name: The Life and Legacy of William J. Fallon" (Oxford University Press), which won an Overseas Press Club award for best biography, and "Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror" (Free Press). Mr.
Holbrooke is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of The Atlantic Bridge, a Washington think tank that promotes bipartisan cooperation on U.S.-Afghan policy, and was previously a trustee of The New York Public Library and a member of its governing board from 2003 to 2007."
