Adjunct Senior Fellow, RAND Corporation; Co-Chair, U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission International Advisory Council

The Honorable William H. Courtney

William Courtney, U.S. Ambassador (retired), is an adjunct senior fellow at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at Pardee RAND Graduate School. He co-chairs the international advisory council of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission and is chair-emeritus of the board of trustees of Eurasia Foundation. As a career foreign service officer, he was Ambassador to Kazakhstan, Georgia, and the U.S.-Soviet Commission to implement the Threshold Test Ban Treaty, and deputy negotiator in the U.S.-Soviet Defense and Space Talks in Geneva. He belongs to the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has a BA from West Virginia University and a PhD from Brown University in economics.