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Edward P. Djerejian joined the Board of Directors of the Company in February 1996. He is the founding Director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and assumed responsibilities there in August 1994. He is the Managing Partner of Djerejian Global Consultancies, LLP.
Prior to his nomination by President Bill Clinton as United Sates Ambassador to Israel in 1993, Ambassador Djerejian served both President George H.W. Bush and President Bill Clinton as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and President Ronald Reagan and President George H.W. Bush as U.S. Ambassador to the Syrian Arab Republic. Ambassador Djerejian has also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs and Deputy Chief of the U.S. mission to the Kingdom of Jordan. He was assigned to the White House in 1985 as Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and Deputy Press Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Djerejian was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow from 1979 to 1981.
Ambassador Djerejian joined the Foreign Service in 1962. In addition to his assignments in Moscow and Amman, he served as a political officer in Beirut, Lebanon and Casablanca, Morocco. Between 1975 and 1977, he was assigned as our Consul General in Bordeaux, France.
A recipient of many honors, Ambassador Djerejian received the Presidential Distinguished Service Award in 1994, the Department of State's Distinguished Honor Award in 1993, the President's Meritorious Service Award in 1988, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1993, and the Anti-Defamation League's Moral Statesman Award in 1994. He is a member of a number of public policy organizations including the Council on Foreign Relations. Ambassador Djerejian is on the board of directors of various corporate and non-profit organizations.
Ambassador Djerejian graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1960. He received an Honorary Doctorate in the Humanities from his alma mater in 1992. He speaks Arabic, Russian, French, and Armenian. | 