Karl Eikenberry
United States general and former ambassador to Afghanistan · United States · On the map · Politicians · Born 1951 · age 75
Karl Winfrid Eikenberry is an American diplomat and retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from April 2009 to July 2011.
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Eikenberry with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at Afghan Army training center in May 2003.
Eikenberry during a press conference at the Pentagon on December 8, 2005.
Visiting Afghan provincial elders as US ambassador in 2009
Ambassador Eikenberry with Afghan ministers at the Kabul Museum in March 2011.
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From 2011 to 2019, he was the director of the U.S. Asia Security Initiative at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and a Stanford University professor of the practice; a member of the core faculty at the Center for International Security and Cooperation; and an affiliated faculty member at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, and the Europe Center.
