William Green Miller

William Green Miller
2nd United States Ambassador to Ukraine
In office
October 21, 1993 – January 6, 1998
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byRoman Popadiuk
Succeeded bySteven Pifer
Personal details
Born(1931-08-15)August 15, 1931
New York City, New York, United States
DiedSeptember 23, 2019(2019-09-23) (aged 88)
Hollin Hills, Virginia, United States
SpouseSuzanne
EducationWilliams College
University of Oxford
Harvard University
ProfessionDiplomat

William Green Miller (August 15, 1931 - September 23, 2019) was an American scholar and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine under Bill Clinton, from 1993 to 1998.[1][2]

Education

He went to college and graduate school at Williams College in 1953, the University of Oxford and Harvard University.[1]

Diplomat

In 1959, he joined the United States Foreign Service.[1] From 1959 to 1964, he served as a diplomat in Iran.[1] He then worked as a staffer for Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and in the Senate for John Sherman Cooper.[1]

From 1981 to 1983, he served as Associate Dean and Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.[1] In 1986, he was a Research Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics and became President of the American Committee on United States-Soviet Relations.[1] From 1993 to 1998, he served as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine.[1]

He was a Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.[3] He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and the Middle East Institute.[1][4] Further, Miller served as the co-Chairman of the Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America[5] and a Director of The Andrei Sakharov Foundation.[6] He additionally consulted for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.[1]

Miller died on September 23, 2019, in his home in Virginia.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Ukraine embassy biography
  2. ^ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR WILLIAM GREEN MILLER" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 10 February 2003. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 June 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  3. ^ Wilson Center webpage
  4. ^ Council on Foreign Relations roster
  5. ^ Kyiv Mohyla Foundation gallery
  6. ^ The Andrei Sakharov Foundation webpage
  7. ^ Bonner, Brian (2019-09-24). "William Green Miller, second US ambassador to independent Ukraine, dies at age 88". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Ukraine
1993–1998 		Succeeded by