Anthony Lake

William Anthony Kirsopp "Tony" Lake (born April 2, 1939) is an American politician, author, academic, and former American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and political advisor.

Anthony Lake
6th Executive Director of UNICEF
In office April 30, 2010 – December 31, 2017
Secretary General	Ban Ki-moon António Guterres
Preceded by	Ann Veneman
Succeeded by	Henrietta H. Fore
18th United States National Security Advisor
In office January 20, 1993 – March 14, 1997
President	Bill Clinton
Deputy	Sandy Berger
Preceded by	Brent Scowcroft
Succeeded by	Sandy Berger
Director of Policy Planning
In office January 21, 1977 – January 20, 1981
President	Jimmy Carter
Preceded by	Winston Lord
Succeeded by	Paul Wolfowitz
Personal details
Born	William Anthony Kirsopp Lake (1939-04-02) April 2, 1939 (age 86) New York City, New York, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Julie Katzman
Education	Harvard University (BA) Trinity College, Cambridge Princeton University (MA, PhD)

Lake was the executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). He has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates. He served as National Security Advisor under U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. Lake is known as being one of the individuals who developed the policy that led to the resolution of the Bosnian War.^[1]

He also held the chair^{[broken anchor]} of Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C.^[2]

Lake converted from Christianity to Judaism.^[3]