| William Courtney William Courtney is director, strategy and development, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). He was senior vice president for national security programs at DynCorp from 2000 until CSC acquired it in 2003. He retired from the Department of State at the end of 1999. Courtney was co-chair of the U.S. delegation to the 1999 OSCE review conference which prepared for the 1999 Istanbul Summit. In 1998-99 he helped manage the reorganization of foreign affairs agencies, including the integration into State of the former U.S. Information Agency and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Earlier Ambassador Courtney was special assistant to the President and senior director of the NSC staff for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia; Ambassador to Georgia; and the first Ambassador to Kazakhstan. He led negotiations to eliminate strategic nuclear weapons in Kazakhstan, the first post-Soviet state to do so. He also negotiated the transfer of 600 KG of highly enriched uranium from Kazakhstan to the United States (Project Sapphire). Ambassador Courtney was the first U.S. commissioner to the bilateral consultative commission, which implements the Threshold Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. In 1991-92, he co-chaired the U.S. delegation in initial talks with the USSR and then Russia on the safety, security, and dismantlement of nuclear weapons. They helped pave the way for the Nunn-Lugar cooperative threat reduction program. Earlier he was deputy negotiator in the U.S.-Soviet defense and space talks in Geneva; NSC deputy executive secretary; special assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; deputy director of State’s office of strategic nuclear policy; and an officer at American embassies in Moscow and Brasilia. Ambassador Courtney attended West Virginia Wesleyan College, where he gave the 1999 commencement address. He graduated from West Virginia University with a B.A. and Brown University with a Ph.D. in economics. In 1977-78 he was an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, of which he is a member. He has received the Presidential Meritorious Rank Award. |
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