Education
George Washington University.
George Washington University.
He is a former Ambassador from the United States of America to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Colombia. William B. Wood presented his credentials on April 16, 2007, to the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and was received as the United States. Ambassador to that nation, replacing the former United States Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald East. Neumann. Ambassador Wood was the United States Ambassador to Colombia from 2003-2007, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Acting Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, with responsibility for all aspects of United States. foreign policy at the United Nations and a number of other multilateral organizations from 1998 to 2002.
Immediately before that assignment, Mr.
Wood was Political Counselor at the United States. Mission to the United Nations, where he was the chief United States. negotiator in the Security Council. Ambassador William B. Wood has been a professional foreign service officer for more than 25 years.
He has served abroad in Uruguay, Argentina, El Salvador, Italy, as part of the United States. negotiating delegation at the 1992 Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Helsinki Summit, and as lead United States. negotiator at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization High Level Task Force on conventional arms control. In Washington, he has served on the policy planning staff for Latin America, as a special assistant in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, as an expert in Latin American affairs on the staff of the Under Secretary for Political Affairs, and on a number of functional and regional desks.
His other areas of expertise include multilateral affairs, peacekeeping operations, conventional arms control, economic development, and politico-military affairs
In 1998 he received the James Clement Dunn Award for Excellence for his work at the United States. Mission to the United Nations. After graduating from Regis High School in New York City in 1968, Wood received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Bucknell University in 1973 and a Master of Business Administration degree, with a specialization in international finance, from the George Washington University in 1975.