Ambassador John Negroponte
Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Research Fellow
John Negroponte is a research fellow and lecturer at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University. He served as the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations from September 2001 to May 2004, as ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005, and as director of national intelligence from April 2007 to January 2009. The following is excerpted from a June 14, 2012, statement during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on “The Law of the Sea Convention.” There is broad and bipartisan consensus from our Nation’s military, political, and business leadership to join the treaty because,…