Albert Peter Burleigh is a United States foreign service officer

Foreign Service Officer

A Foreign Service Officer is a commissioned member of the United States Foreign Service. As diplomats, Foreign Service Officers formulate and implement the foreign policy of the United States. FSOs spend most of their careers overseas as members of U.S. embassies, consulates, and other diplomatic...

 and diplomat

Diplomat

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. He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy

American Academy of Diplomacy

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Albert Burleigh graduated from Colgate University

Colgate University

Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York, USA. The school was founded in 1819 as a Baptist seminary and later became non-denominational. It is named for the Colgate family who greatly contributed to the university's endowment in the 19th century.Colgate has 52...

 with a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 in 1963.

He served as United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka

United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka

The position of United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives has existed since 1949. Sri Lanka – United States relations and Maldives – United States relations have been friendly throughout the history of Sri Lanka and History of the Maldives. The diplomatic mission representing the...

 1995–97, serving concurrently as Ambassador to the Maldives. In 1998–99 he was briefly the acting ambassador to the UN

United States Ambassador to the United Nations

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. In 1999 President Clinton nominated Burleigh for the post of United States Ambassador to the Philippines

United States Ambassador to the Philippines

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 and Palau

United States Ambassador to Palau

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, but the U.S. Senate never acted upon the nomination, and it was eventually withdrawn. In 2009 he was appointed to serve as the interim American Ambassador to India

United States Ambassador to India

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In June 2011 Burleigh was selected to succeed Timothy Roemer as the ambassador to India, pending Senate confirmation. He is the first U.S. Ambassador to be fluent in Hindi.

External links

• Peter Burleigh profile at NNDB.