Anthony Lake

Anthony Lake is the Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He served as President Clinton's National Security Adviser from 1992-1996, and Director of Policy Planning at the State Department in the Carter administration. He began his career in the Foreign Service as a Special Assistant to Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge in 1962, later working as an aide to Secretary of State Kissinger in 1969. Prior to serving in the Clinton administration, Anthony Lake taught at Mount Holyoke and Amherst Colleges. His published works include The 'Tar Baby' Option: American Policy Toward Southern Rhodesia (1976); Third World Radical Regimes: U.S. Policy Under Carter and Reagan (1985); and Somoza Falling: A Case Study of Washington at Work (1990). He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard, studied economics at Cambridge University in England for two years, and received his Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.