William Braucher Wood

American ambassador

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William Braucher Wood

United States Ambassador to Afghanistan
In office
April 16, 2007 – April 9, 2009
President| George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Preceded by| Ronald E. Neumann
Succeeded by| Karl Eikenberry
United States Ambassador to Colombia
In office
2003–2007
President| George W. Bush
Preceded by| Anne Woods Patterson
Succeeded by| William Brownfield
Personal details
Born|  (1950-08-07) August 7, 1950 (age 72)
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Profession| Diplomat, Career Minister

William Braucher Wood (born August 7, 1950) is the U.S. Envoy for International Sanctions Implementation at the Department of State. 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 U.S. Ambassador to that nation, replacing the former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald E. Neumann. Ambassador Wood was the US Ambassador to Colombia from 2003 to 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 U.S. 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 U.S. Mission to the United Nations, where he was the chief U.S. negotiator in the Security Council.

## Career[edit]

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 U.S. negotiating delegation at the 1992 CSCE Helsinki Summit, and as lead U.S. negotiator at the NATO 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.

Ambassador Wood has received the Department of State's meritorious and superior honor awards on repeated occasions. In 1998 he received the James Clement Dunn Award for Excellence for his work at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. In 2002, he received the Distinguished Service Award, the highest award offered by the Department of State.

## Life[edit]

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.

## References[edit]

* "William Braucher Wood". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 2007-08-12. www.state.gov

## External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to William Braucher Wood.

* Official site of the U.S. Embassy-Kabul
* Wood's biography from the U.S. Embassy-Kabul website
* Appearances on C-SPAN

Diplomatic posts

Preceded by

Anne Woods Patterson

|  U.S. Ambassador to Colombia
2003–2007  | Succeeded by

William Brownfield

Preceded by

Ronald E. Neumann

|  U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
2007 – 2009  | Succeeded by

Karl Eikenberry

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United States Ambassadors to Afghanistan

Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary
(1935–1948)|

* Hornibrook
* Dreyfus
* Thayer (chargé d'affaires)
* Engert
* Palmer

Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary
(1948–1979)|

* Palmer
* Dreyfus
* Merrell
* Ward
* Tibbetts Mills
* Byroade
* Steeves
* Robert Neumann
* Eliot
* Dubs

Chargés d'affaires (1979–1989)|

* Amstutz
* Quinn Mills
* Dunbar
* Hurwitz
* Ealum
* Glassman

The embassy was closed from January 30, 1989, to January 17, 2002; the liaison office reopened on December 17, 2001.

Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary
(2001–2021)|

* Dobbins (chargé d'affaires)
* Crocker (chargé d'affaires)
* Finn
* Khalilzad
* Ronald Neumann
* Wood
* Eikenberry
* Crocker
* Cunningham
* McKinley
* Llorens (chargé d'affaires)
* Bass
* Wilson (chargé d'affaires)

The embassy transferred operations to Qatar on August 31, 2021.

Chargés d'affaires (2021–present)|

* McCary
* Decker

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United States Ambassadors to Colombia

Gran Colombia

Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary|

* Anderson
* Watts (chargé d'affaires)
* Harrison
* Moore

Republic of New Granada

Chargé d'Affaires|

* McAfee
* Semple
* Blackford
* Bidlack
* Foote
* King
* Green

Minister Resident|

* Bowlin
* Jones

United States of Colombia

Minister Resident|

* Burton
* Sullivan
* Hurlbut
* Scruggs
* Dichman
* Maney

Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary|

* Scruggs
* Jacob

Republic of Colombia

Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary|

* Maury
* Abbott
* McKinney
* Hart
* Beaupre
* Russell
* Barrett
* T. Dawson
* Northcott
* DuBois
* Thompson
* Philip
* Piles
* Caffery
* Whitehouse
* W. Dawson

Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary|

* Braden
* Lane
* Wiley
* Beaulac
* Waynick
* Schoenfeld
* Bonsal
* Cabot
* McIntosh
* Freeman
* Oliver
* Carlson
* Vaughn
* Saccio
* Vaky
* Sanchez
* Asencio
* Boyatt
* Tambs
* Gillespie
* McNamara
* Busby
* Frechette
* Kamman
* Patterson
* Wood
* Brownfield
* McKinley
* Whitaker
* Goldberg
* Palmieri (chargé d'affaires)

Authority control

International|

* VIAF

National|

* United States

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