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John Dimitri Negroponte (; born July 21, 1939) is a British-born American diplomat of Greek descent . He is currently a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Prior to this appointment, he served as the United States Deputy Secretary of State and as the first ever Director of National Intelligence. Negroponte served in the United States Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997. From 1981 to 1996, he had tours of duty as United States ambassador in Honduras, Mexico, and the Philippines. After leaving the Foreign Service, he subsequently served in the Bush Administration as U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations from 2001 to 2004, and was ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005. In November 2010, some of Negroponte's letters were released on the website WikiLeaks.〔(purported Negroponte cable ), accessed 2014-02-06〕 ==Early life and education== Negroponte was born in London, United Kingdom on July 21, 1939, to Greek parents (1915–1996) and Catherine Coumantaros Negroponte (1916–2000). His father was a Greek shipping magnate. Negroponte attended the Allen-Stevenson School and graduated from Exeter Academy in 1956 and Yale University in 1960. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, alongside William H.T. Bush, the brother of President George H. W. Bush, and Porter Goss, who served as Director of Central Intelligence and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Negroponte from 2005 to 2006. After less than a semester at Harvard Law School, Negroponte joined the Foreign Service. He later served at eight different Foreign Service posts in Asia (including the U.S. Embassy, Saigon), Europe and Latin America; and he also held important positions at the State Department and the White House. As a young Foreign Service officer—one of the few men in Washington who dared to openly disagree with Henry Kissinger’s secret handling of the Vietnam peace talks—Negroponte attempted to convince his superior that any peace agreement negotiated without the consent of South Vietnam’s leader Thieu would be doomed to failure. Seymour Hersh claims in his book “The Price of Power” that Kissinger never forgave Negroponte, and, upon becoming Secretary of State, exiled him to Quito, Ecuador. Ironically, this was to be the beginning of Negroponte’s long distinguished career as an ambassador. In 1981, he became the U.S. ambassador to Honduras. From 1985 to 1987, Negroponte held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. Subsequently, he served as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, from 1987 to 1989; Ambassador to Mexico, from 1989 to 1993; and Ambassador to the Philippines from 1993 to 1996. As Deputy National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan, he was involved in the campaign to remove from power General Manuel Noriega in Panama. From 1997 until his appointment as ambassador to the U.N., Negroponte was an executive with McGraw-Hill. Negroponte speaks five languages (English, French, Greek, Spanish, and Vietnamese). He is the elder brother of Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab and of the One Laptop per Child project. His brother Michel Negroponte is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and his other brother, George Negroponte, is an artist and was President of the Drawing Center from 2002-2007. Negroponte and his wife, Diana Mary Villiers (b. 14 August 1947), have five adopted children, Marina, Alexandra, John, George and Sophia, all of whom were adopted from Honduras. They were married on December 14, 1971. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Negroponte」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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