Anthony Lake

Anthony Lake
Lake in 2010
6th Executive Director of UNICEF
In office April 30, 2010 – December 31, 2017
Secretary General	Ban Ki-moon António Guterres
Preceded by	Ann Veneman
Succeeded by	Henrietta H. Fore
17th United States National Security Advisor
In office January 20, 1993 – March 14, 1997
President	Bill Clinton
Deputy	Sandy Berger
Preceded by	Jonathan Howe
Succeeded by	Sandy Berger
11th Director of Policy Planning
In office January 21, 1977 – January 20, 1981
President	Jimmy Carter
Preceded by	Winston Lord
Succeeded by	Paul Wolfowitz
Personal details
Born	William Anthony Kirsopp Lake (1939-04-02) April 2, 1939 (age 85) New York City, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouses	Antonia Plehn ​ ​ (m. 1962; div. 1995)​ Julie Katzman ​ (m. 2005)​
Children	3
Relatives	Kirsopp Lake (grandfather)
Education	Harvard University (BA) Trinity College, Cambridge Princeton University (MA, PhD)

William Anthony Kirsopp Lake (born April 2, 1939) is an American diplomat and political advisor who served as the 17th United States National Security Advisor from 1993 to 1997 and as the sixth Executive Director of UNICEF from 2010 to 2017.

Lake has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates, and served as National Security Advisor under U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. Lake is credited as being one of the individuals who developed the policy that led to the resolution of the Bosnian War.^[1] He also held the chair of Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C.^[2]