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Douglas Davidson

Douglas Davidson is the U.S. Department of State’s Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues. From 2004 to 2008 he led the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and, prior to that, served as its Deputy U.S. Representative in Vienna. His other overseas diplomatic assignments include Kosovo, Zagreb, and Belgrade, as well as Peshawar in the early 1980s during the Soviet-Afghan war. From 1989 until 1993 he served as Assistant Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs at the White House. He receiveda B.A. from Lawrence University and an A.M. from Brown University, both in Classics.


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