AGA’s 2015 Professional Development Training

John Blaney
Former U S Ambassador to Liberia



Ambassador (Ret) John Blaney was the US Ambassador to Liberia from 2002 to 2005. He successfully ended a 14 year civil war and played a key role in removing warlord Charles Taylor from power. He also conceived and implemented much of Liberia’s multilateral post-war stabilization and recovery program to ensure peace, democratic transition, and nation-building. For his accomplishments in Liberia, Ambassador Blaney was awarded the President’s Distinguished Service Award, the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award, and the Order of Redemption, Knight Great Band. Mr. Blaney has previously served as a nuclear arms control negotiator, an economist with the US Treasury Department, and as a professional in the financial services industry.

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