Douglas E. Lute
United States Ambassador to NATO
Ambassador Douglas E. Lute is Chair of the International and Defense Practices, BGR Group; CEO of Cambridge Global Advisors, LLC; and Distinguished Chair of Social Sciences, U.S. Military Academy, West Point. He is the former United States Ambassador to NATO, 2013-2017. From 2007-2013, he served in the White House, coordinating the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A career Army officer, in 2010 he retired from active duty as a lieutenant general after 35 years of service. He holds degrees from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and United States Military Academy at West Point, which named him a Distinguished Graduate in 2018.
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