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The Foreign Affairs Policy Board is an advisory board that provides independent advice and opinion to the secretary of state, the deputy secretary of state, and the director of policy planning on matt
72nd United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio
R. Nicholas Burns
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Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and international relations scholar. He served as the United States ambassador to China from 2022 to 2025. He is now the Goodman Professor of the Practice
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…have a wide range of expertise and come from various backgrounds, including government, academia, politics, development, business, and think tanks. Nicholas Burns William J. Burns…
Official portrait, 2022
Burns and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at NATO headquarters in Brussels on December 2, 2003
Official Portrait of Burns, the then Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in 2005
Burns during the Munich Security Conference in 2016