Donald F. McHenry

Ambassador Donald F. McHenry was the former the Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University until 2014. From 1981 to 2007 he was also principal owner and president of the IRC Group, an international consulting firm. Ambassador McHenry was the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1979 to 1981, and Deputy U.S. Representative from 1977 to 1979. He has held a variety of positions in the U.S. Department of State as well as fellowships with the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1966 he received the State Department's Superior Honor Award. In 1973, after leaving the State Department, he joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. as a project director in Humanitarian Policy Studies. Ambassador McHenry is a Director of the Coca-Cola Company. He also holds a number of board and trustee positions in non-governmental organizations, including Chairman of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Fund, and Director of the Institute for International Education, the Institute for International Economics, the American Ditchley Foundation, The Brookings Institution, and the American Assembly. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the United Nations Association of the United States of America, and he is an Editorial Board member of Foreign Policy magazine. Ambassador McHenry is a former member of the Board of Governors of the American Stock Exchange, the Board of Directors of Fleet Boston Financial, Glaxo Smithkline, AT&T, International Paper, the Council of Foreign Relations, and the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation, the Johnson Foundation, the National Institute for Dispute Resolution, Mount Holyoke College, Mayo Foundation, and the World Peace Foundation. He is Trustee Emeritus of Columbia University and the MAYO Foundation, as well as Chairman Emeritus of Africare.