Findley Burns Jr.

Findley Burns Jr. (May 4, 1917, in Baltimore, MD – October 14, 2003, in Southern Pines, NC[1]) was an American Foreign Service officer, Vice Consul, and Ambassador.

A graduate of Princeton University (1939),[2] Burns attended Harvard from 1950 to 1951 and was a student at the National War College in Washington from 1961 to 1962.

He was a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

[4] Some of his early assignments were in Madrid, Brussels, Warsaw, London, and Vienna.

[2][6] From 1974 to 1980, he worked at the United Nations in New York,[1] where he was director of the office of Technical Cooperation.