William P. Kiehl Named Editor of American Diplomacy

William P. Kiehl, Ed. D. will assume the duties of Editor of the Internet journal American Diplomacy in August 2009 succeeding Ambassador (ret.) James Bullington.

Dr. Kiehl is founding President and CEO of PD Worldwide International Consultants. He taught public diplomacy at the Foreign Service Institute, lectured at European and American universities, served as the Executive Director of the Public Diplomacy Council at George Washington University, and was Diplomat in Residence at the U.S. Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership/Senior Fellow of the U.S. Army Peacekeeping Institute.

During a Foreign Service career of 33 years with the Department of State and the U.S. Information Agency, Dr. Kiehl served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and in numerous other public diplomacy positions at home and abroad. He has published many articles on public diplomacy, edited the book America’s Dialogue with the World (2006) and is the author of Global Intentions Local Results: How Colleges Can Create International Communities (2008). Dr. Kiehl holds his Ed.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.