Wayne, Earl Anthony, 1950-

<p>Earl Anthony Wayne was nominated by President Bush to be Ambassador of the United States to Argentina on April 4, 2006, and the Senate confirmed his nomination on July 28, 2006. Wayne was born in 1950 in Concord, California. He earned his BA in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1972, and subsequently received an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, an MA from Princeton University, and another MA from Stanford University. He joined the Foreign Service in 1975. Early in his career, Wayne was posted as a political officer in Rabat, Morocco, and as an analyst of Chinese domestic and foreign policies in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Wayne was Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Alexander Haig and George Shultz from 1981 to 1983, and from 1984 to 1987, he served as First Secretary at the embassy in Paris. From 1987 to 1989, Wayne took a leave of absence from the Foreign Service and worked as National Security Correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor.</p>

<p>From 1989 to 1991, Wayne was Director for Regional Affairs for the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Counter-Terrorism, formulating and implementing counter-terrorism policy cooperation during the first Iraq war and the fall of the Iron Curtain. From June 1991 to June 1993, he was Director for Western European Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC). Wayne was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to the European Union from July 1993 until July 1996, served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe and Canada from 1996 to 1997, and as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the bureau of European Affairs from 1997 until spring 2000. From June 2000 to June 2006, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, where he played a lead role coordinating reconstruction assistance to countries hit by the December 2004 Asian tsunami, and the international response to the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. Wayne speaks French.</p>

<p>Ambassador Earl Anthony (“Tony”) Wayne, the former United States Ambassador to Mexico (2011-2015) and Argentina (2006-2009) and former Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs (2000-2006), has joined American University as a Distinguished Diplomat-in-Residence in the School of International Service (SIS). During his tenure at AU’s SIS, Ambassador Wayne will teach and mentor students and work to elevate the profile of the school.</p>

<p>“We are honored to welcome Ambassador Tony Wayne to the American University’s School of International Service,” said Christine BN Chin, Dean of the School of International Service. “His diplomatic career spans regions of the world, functions and areas of expertise, and we are excited that our students will have the unique opportunity to learn from his vast experience in the highest levels of the Foreign Service.”</p>

<p>“Following my career as a professional diplomat, I have felt a strong desire to help teach new generations to better understand, to value and to wisely execute and guide the international affairs of the United States and of other countries in the coming years. I am very honored to have the opportunity to do so at American University’s School of International Service.”</p>

<p>Ambassador Wayne’s diplomatic career spans more than four decades in North America, Latin America, Southwest Asia and Europe working on issues ranging from economics and education to anti-terrorism and public security. During his tenure in Mexico, Wayne helped to establish the U.S.-Mexico High Level Economic Dialogue and his embassy teams delivered more than $1 billion worth of capacity-building to that country’s law enforcement and justice institutions and initiated more than 90 new programs under the $2.5 billion Merida Initiative to support anti-crime reforms.</p>

<p>During Wayne’s years as Ambassador, the U.S. strengthened the U.S.-Mexico Bilateral Forum on Higher Education, Innovation and Research that allowed for more than 3,000 Mexican students and teachers to participate in educational exchanges with U.S. institutions of higher education in 2014 and fostered more than 50 university partnerships.</p>

<p>In addition to his service in Mexico and Argentina, Wayne served as Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan (2010-1011) and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (1997-2000). He retired from the State Department in late 2015 as a Career Ambassador, the most senior rank in the Foreign Service.</p>

<p>A champion for diversity, equity and inclusion, during his tenure as Ambassador, Embassy Mexico City was selected as one of three inaugural State Department “Gender Champions” for its support of gender programs and priorities.</p>

<p>Since leaving the State Department, Ambassador Wayne has served as a Public Policy Fellow and Co-Chair of the Mexico Institute’s Board at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Global Business and Economics Program at the Atlantic Council, and as a Senior Non-Resident Advisor for the Project on Prosperity and Development at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, among other affiliations. Wayne has written and spoken widely on U.S.-Mexico relations, trade, Afghanistan and other topics. He is currently completing a new study on a Workforce Development Agenda North America at the Wilson Center.</p>

<p>Earl Anthony Wayne (born 1950) is an American diplomat. Formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Ambassador to Argentina and Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan, Wayne served nearly four years as Ambassador to Mexico. He was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in August, 2011. He departed Mexico City for Washington July 31, 2015 and retired from the State Department on September 30, 2015. Wayne attained the highest rank in the U.S. diplomatic service: Career Ambassador. He is currently a Diplomat in Residence at American University's School of International Service and works with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Atlantic Council, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and as an independent consultant, speaker and writer. Wayne worked as an adviser for HSBC Latin America on improving management of financial crime risk from 2015 until 2019 and with the American Foreign Service Association from 2017-2019.</p>

<p>Earl Anthony Wayne was born in Sacramento, California and grew up in nearby Concord, where he graduated from Mt. Diablo High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley (1972) where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, as well as being selected to be a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He continued his studies to earn master's degrees in Political Science from Stanford University (1973) and Princeton University (1975), and a master's degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University (1984). He is known as "Tony" to close acquaintances and is married with two adult children.</p>

<p>A career diplomat starting in 1975, Wayne first served as a China analyst in the Department of State and was then posted overseas as a political officer in Rabat, Morocco. He was assigned to serve in the Executive Secretariat at the State Department under Secretaries of State Cyrus Vance and Edmund Muskie, in 1980. He worked as Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Alexander Haig and George Shultz, from 1981 to 1983, and was named First Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, 1984–87 via a mid-career Masters program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.</p>

<p>After Paris, Wayne took a leave of absence to work as the national security correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor for two years. He returned to Foreign Service as the Director for Regional Affairs for the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Counter-Terrorism, from 1989 to 1991. He served as Director for Western European Affairs at the National Security Council from June 1991 until mid-1993, then as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to the European Union until 1996, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe and Canada (1996–97).</p>

<p>His appointment as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European Affairs in 1997 gave Wayne broader responsibilities including in the management of U.S. relations with the European Union, the OECD, the G-8, regional economic and global topics, and Nazi restitution issues, as well as oversight of bureau management and public diplomacy programs. He played an important role in organizing the Stability Pact Summit for South West Europe in 1999, for which he subsequently received a Presidential Distinguished Service Award.</p>

<p>Wayne was nominated and confirmed as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs (EB) in 2000. He served in that position under three Secretaries of State. In EB, he oversaw work on post-conflict economic assistance, economic sanctions, international debt, development and economic reform policies, combating the financing of terrorism, international energy policy, trade, intellectual property and investment policies, international telecommunications policy, international transportation policies, support for U.S. businesses overseas, and efforts to end trade in "conflict diamonds". He also had a leading role in coordinating a number of reconstruction and assistance donor conferences during this time.</p>

<p>Wayne served as Interim Under Secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs in 2005, during which he also served as U.S. Foreign Affairs "Sous-Sherpa," helping prepare the Gleneagles G8 Summit. At his departure in June, 2006, Wayne had become the longest serving Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs. He received a State Department Distinguished Honor Award and a Presidential Meritorious Service Award during his tenure as Assistant Secretary.</p>

<p>In 2006, Wayne was nominated and confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, and he presented his credentials in November 6 of that year. In 2008, he received the Paul Wellstone Anti-Slavery Ambassador of the Year Award for his work against trafficking in persons in Argentina. He also worked successfully to improve the image of the United States in Argentina, as well as to increase bilateral trade and investment and to improve cooperation on fighting illegal drugs, among other areas.</p>

<p>In June 2009, Ambassador Wayne was asked to serve in a newly created position as Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he worked to improve coordination of U.S. government non-military assistance to that country and to enhance cooperation between international donors and the Afghan government.</p>

<p>In late May, 2010, Wayne took over the position of Deputy Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. In that role, under Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, he oversaw Embassy programs and staff, worked closely with the Afghan government, coordinated with the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and with other elements of the international community and Afghan society. Wayne received a Presidential Meritorious Service Award and a Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service for his work in Afghanistan, as well as the Cordell Hull Award for Economic Achievement from the Department of State.</p>

<p>In May 2011, President Obama submitted Wayne's nomination to be the US Ambassador to Mexico. Wayne was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 2, and presented his credentials to President Felipe Calderón on September 13, 2011. During Wayne's tenure, the United States and Mexico expanded cooperation on economic, educational, public security and other issues. The two governments established a High Level Economic Dialogue, the Mexico-U.S. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Council, the U.S.-Mexico Bilateral Forum on Higher Education, Innovation and Research, and a Bilateral Security Forum, while expanding cooperation under the $2.3 billion Mérida Initiative and on a range of border and travel issues. Trade, investment and tourism grew each year during Wayne's tenure. In 2014, the number of Mexicans studying in the U.S. doubled to over 30,000 and some 50 new university level partnerships were established, thanks to cooperation under the Bilateral Forum on Higher Education. Mission Mexico was chosen in 2014 by the State Department as the "Embassy to Watch" for its wide ranging public-private partnerships, and in 2015, the Embassy was selected as one of three "Gender Champions" among U.S. Embassies world-wide for its efforts to support gender programs and good practices. Mission Mexico's outreach also grew massively during Wayne's tenure, for example, reaching 1 million Facebook likes for the Embassy alone by September, 2015. Wayne's work in Mexico was recognized by the U.S. and Mexican governments (see Recognition).</p>

<p>Confirmed by the Senate as a "Career Ambassador" (2010) (the most senior rank of the U.S. Foreign Service); Cordell Hull Award for Economic Achievement by Senior Officers (2010); Paul Wellstone Anti-Slavery Ambassador of the Year Award (2008); Department of State's Distinguished Honor Award (2005); Presidential Distinguished Service Award (2001); two Presidential Meritorious Service Awards (2012, 2005); Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service (2011); Global Ambassador of Peace and Public Service, International House, University of California, Berkeley (2015); Order of the Aztec Eagle granted by Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto and Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Meade (2015). In October 2015, Wayne was chosen to receive the State Department's Charles E. Cobb Jr. Award for Initiative and Success in Trade Development. In June 2017, the Director General of the Foreign Service awarded Wayne the Director General's Cup for the Foreign Service.</p>

<p>An accomplished diplomat and executive, Ambassador Wayne has served in a wide variety of positions during his career, including as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and Argentina, Deputy Ambassador in Afghanistan, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe. “Tony” has successfully led complex organizations and teams in Washington and overseas, working to develop and implement policies involving countries around the world to solve problems and create opportunities across economic, political, security and public diplomacy issues. Wayne left the State Department in late 2015 as a Career Ambassador, the most senior U.S. diplomatic rank.</p>

<p>Ambassador Wayne is currently engaged in a variety of activities. These include working as a Public Policy Fellow and Co-Chair of the Mexico Institute’s Board at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Wayne is a non-resident advisor/fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Atlantic Council. Wayne is the Treasurer of the American Foreign Service Association and Treasurer of its PAC. He is a consultant and speaker on international and management Issues. From 2015-2019, Wayne was a Non-Executive Director on the Financial System Risk Advisory Committee of HSBC Latin America. For the bank, he successfully improved its culture and practices on managing financial crime risk. In Fall 2016, Wayne taught at Hamilton College as the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs. He has writes and speaks frequently on international topics, including Mexico, NAFTA, Afghanistan, trans-Atlantic relations and trade.</p>

<p>Wayne’s most recent diplomatic posting was as United States Ambassador to Mexico from September 2011 through July 2015. He led a Mission of 2,700 employees representing 29 U.S. agencies, working to foster America’s relationship with a major partner on trade, investment, tourism, migration, law enforcement, and border security. During Wayne’s tenure, Mission Mexico’s accomplishments included establishing the U.S.-Mexico High Level Economic Dialogue, the Mexico-U.S. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Council, and new energy and environmental dialogues. The embassy also encouraged the creation of the U.S.-Mexico CEO Dialogue. Two-way trade, investment and tourism all grew significantly during Wayne’s tenure. Security and people-to-people issues were also priorities. Mission Mexico delivered over $1 billion dollars worth of capacity building support to Mexico’s law enforcement and justice institutions and initiated over 90 new programs under the $2.5 billion Merida Initiative to support anti-crime reforms. Wayne and his team improved law enforcement, security, defense, border and consular cooperation through new bilateral coordination mechanisms and protocols. Results included increased arrests of criminal bosses, reduced cross-border violence and unprecedented levels of military-to-military cooperation. Education cooperation grew through the new U.S.-Mexico Bilateral Forum on Higher Education, Innovation and Research, which resulted in doubling the number of Mexican students and teachers who studied in the U.S. in 2014 and fostered over 50 university partnerships. Mission Mexico also greatly expanded outreach to Mexican society. The embassy, for example, increased its Facebook likes from 9,000 in 2011 to 960,000 in mid-2015 and innovated in use of music, youth programs and other means to reach the public. The U.S. Mission was named the 2014 “Embassy to Watch” by the State Department for its wide-ranging public-private partnerships. In 2015, the embassy was selected as one of three inaugural State Department “Gender Champions” for its support of gender programs and priorities.</p>

<p>Before Mexico, Wayne spent two years working at the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Arriving in 2009, Wayne served as Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs, leading a new office created to improve coordination of over $4 billion in U.S. non-military assistance among U.S. civilian agencies and with the Afghan government, the U.S. military’s programs, and international aid agencies. After a year, Wayne was named Deputy U.S. Ambassador. As the Chief Operating Officer, he supervised an Embassy and field offices of over 1000. Wayne liaised closely with the government of Afghanistan, the U.S. military, and international military and civilian leaders.</p>

<p>From 2006 to 2009, Wayne was the United States Ambassador to Argentina. In Buenos Aires, Wayne promoted U.S. commercial interests and helped increase trade and tourism. He and his team worked hard to improved U.S. image through vigorous public diplomacy, youth engagement and partnership with civil society to overcome high levels of anti-Americanism. Wayne successfully managed government-to-government disagreements, while strengthening cooperation in fighting trafficking in persons, drug trafficking and terrorism.</p>

<p>From 2000-2006, Wayne worked for three Secretaries of State as the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs (EB). Under Wayne, EB played a lead role in organizing major international donor and reconstruction conferences and raised billions of dollars in contributions, working with various agencies, governments, companies and NGOs. Wayne and his team built international coalitions to cut off money supporting terrorists, working with the National Security Council and the U.S. Treasury to place terrorists and their financiers under UN and U.S. sanctions. They helped steer negotiation of major debt relief and economic reform packages working with the U.S. Treasury. EB and Wayne worked with the Department of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative to support U.S. companies in commercial disputes and to achieve U.S. goals in trade negotiations. Working with the NSC, Treasury and USAID, Wayne and EB helped establish the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Wayne is the longest serving EB Assistant Secretary.</p>

<p>From 1996-2000, Wayne was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (EUR) (1997-2000) and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe and Canada (1996-97). Wayne’s responsibilities included relations with the European Union, OECD, G8, economic and global issues, restitution of Nazi-seized assets, bureau management, public affairs, and U.S.-Canada relations (1996-97 only). He oversaw the organization of U.S.-EU summits every six months fostering a wide-range of transatlantic cooperation. Wayne played a key role in building G8 consensus on managing situation surrounding Kosovo and in organizing and guiding the 1999 Stability Pact Summit in Sarajevo.</p>

<p>Earlier positions include Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to the European Union; Director for Western Europe at the National Security Council; Director for Regional Affairs at the State Department’s Counter-Terrorism office; National Security Correspondent, The Christian Science Monitor; First Secretary, U.S. Embassy Paris; Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Haig and Shultz; Line Officer in State’s Executive Secretariat; Political Officer, U.S. Embassy Rabat; and a China Analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.</p>

<p>Wayne has received various honors. In 2017, he was awarded the Director General’s Cup for the Foreign Service. In 2015, he was awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest order granted to foreigners, by Mexico’s President and Foreign Secretary. He also received the State Department’s Charles Cobb Award for Initiative and Success in Trade Development. He was presented the International House “Global Ambassador of Peace and Public Service” award by the Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. In 2012, Wayne received a Presidential Meritorious Service Award and, in 2011, the Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service, both for work in Afghanistan. In 2010, Wayne was confirmed by the Senate as a Career Ambassador. That year he also received the Cordell Hull Award for Economic Achievement by Senior Officers for work in Afghanistan. In 2008, he was given the Paul Wellstone Anti-Slavery Ambassador of the Year Award for work in Argentina. In 2005, Wayne received the Department of State’s Distinguished Honor Award and a Presidential Meritorious Service Award for work as EB Assistant Secretary. He received a Presidential Distinguished Service Award for work related to Kosovo and Southwest Europe in 2001.</p>

<p>Wayne has an MPA from the JFK School of Government, Harvard University (1984), an MA from Princeton University (1975), an MA from Stanford University (1973), and a BA is from the University of California, Berkeley (1972). Born and raised in California, Wayne has been married for over forty years and is blessed with children and grandchildren. </p>