Richard Morningstar

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Richard L. Morningstar
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PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byMatthew Bryza
Succeeded byRobert Cekuta
2nd United States Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy
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Preceded byC. Boyden Gray
14th United States Ambassador to the European Union
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George W. Bush
Preceded byA. Vernon Weaver
Succeeded byRockwell A. Schnabel
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Harvard University (BA)
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Richard L. Morningstar (born 1945) is an American diplomat. He was former United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2012 to 2014. He was formerly Special Envoy of the United States Secretary of State for Eurasian Energy. Currently, Ambassador Morningstar is the founding director and chairman of the Global Energy Center at the Atlantic Council. He also serves as a senior advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group, a global business strategy firm.

Education

Richard Morningstar earned a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Harvard College and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 1970.[1][2]

Career

Morningstar started his career with the law firm of Peabody & Brown (now Nixon Peabody) in Boston, Massachusetts, where he practiced law from 1970 to 1981. He then served as CEO of Costar Corporation, and since 1990 as the chairman of the board.[1][3] Since June 1993, Morningstar served as senior vice president for Policy and Investment Development at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. In April 1995, Morningstar was posted as the special advisor to the president and Secretary of State on Assistance to the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union. His rank of ambassador was confirmed by the Senate on 11 June 1996. In July 1998, he was assigned as a special advisor to the president and the Secretary of State for Caspian Basin Energy Diplomacy. In that capacity Morningstar was a promoter of the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline. In 1999–2001, Morningstar served as the United States Ambassador to the European Union.[3]

Beginning in 2001, Ambassador Morningstar served as a senior director at the global strategy firm Stonebridge International (now Albright Stonebridge Group[4])

On 20 April 2009, Ambassador Morningstar was named to the position of the Special Envoy of the United States Secretary of State for Eurasian Energy.[5] In that capacity Morningstar represented the United States at the signing ceremony of the intergovernmental agreement of the Nabucco pipeline.[6][7] He has strongly opposed the possible participation of Iran in the Nabucco project.[8][9]

Morningstar has been a visiting scholar and diplomat in residence at the Stanford University Institute for International Studies, a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School and an adjunct professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.[1]

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Azerbaijan-U.S. ICT Forum, December 3, 2013

On 27 April 2012, Morningstar was nominated for the US Ambassadorship in Azerbaijan.[10] On 30 June 2012, the U.S. Senate confirmed this appointment.[11] He gave a speech in defense of Free Thought University on April 11, 2013, a day after it was closed by the government of Azerbaijan.[12]

In 2014 Morningstar was named director of the Atlantic Council’s[13] New Global Energy Center.[14]

Personal life

Richard Morningstar is married to Faith Pierce Morningstar, a former board member of the democracy promotion and human rights group Freedom House, with two sons and two daughters. He also has 12 grandchildren.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Richard Morningstar. Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy". Harvard Kennedy School. Archived from the original on April 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-12.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ambassador Richard Morningstar". Salzburg Global Seminar. March 2001. Retrieved 2009-07-12.
  3. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ambassador Richard L. Morningstar". The United States Mission to the European Union. Archived from the original on March 31, 2008. Retrieved 2009-07-12.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ambassador to Azerbaijan: Who Is Richard Morningstar?". AllGov. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Daniel Fineren (2009-04-26). "Iran can make more of its energy riches: U.S. envoy". Reuters. Retrieved 2009-07-12.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Selcuk Gokoluk (2009-07-12). "Russia free to supply gas to Nabucco-U.S. envoy". Reuters. Retrieved 2009-07-12.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ankara prepares for Nabucco agreement". United Press International. 2009-07-12. Retrieved 2009-07-12.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Nabucco gas pipeline nations wary of Iran-US envoy". Reuters. 2009-07-16. Retrieved 2009-07-19.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."U.S. envoy: No role for Iran in Nabucco". United Press International. 2009-06-25. Retrieved 2009-07-19.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Obama Nominates Morningstar for Azerbaijan Ambassadorship". Asbarez Armenian News. 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2012-05-03.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dadashova, S. (2012-06-30). "U.S. Senate confirms Richard Morningstar as ambassador to Azerbaijan". Trend News Agency. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ambassador Morningstar Speaks to Free Thought University". Turan Information Agency. 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2025-01-27.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Board of Directors". Atlantic Council. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Richard Morningstar Named Founding Director of the Atlantic Council's New Global Energy Center". Atlantic Council. November 17, 2014. Retrieved September 8, 2015.

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