R. Nicholas Burns
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican diplomat and academic (born 1956)
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Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and international relations scholar. He served as the United States ambassador to China from 2022 to 2025. He is now the Goodman Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
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Burns and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at NATO headquarters in Brussels on December 2, 2003
Official Portrait of Burns, the then Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in 2005
Burns during the Munich Security Conference in 2016
Burns sworn in as ambassador to China by Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman in January 2022
Burns meeting with Heilongjiang Governor Liang Huiling in February 2024Awards 2
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Born 1956 · age 70
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