Donald James Planty (born 1945) is an American diplomat.United States Department of StateU.S. Department of State Office of the Historian He served as United States Ambassador to Guatemala from 1996 to 1999.Institute of Peace He is currently a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group.
Biography
Early life Donald Planty was born in Lowville, New York in 1945. He graduated from Fordham University in 1966 and received an M.A. in Political Science from the University of New Mexico in 1970. In 1964, while at Fordham, he attended the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, Chile on a Fulbright-Hays grant. At UNM, he was a teaching assistant in the Peace Corps Training Center for Latin America.
Career In 1967, he started his career as a caseworker for the New York City Department of Social Services. He was Ambassador-in-residence at the National War College in Washington, D.C. from 1984 to 1985. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala from 1996 to 1999, facilitating the 1996 Peace Accords.
Personal life He has three sons: Reverend Donald J. Planty, Jr. (Rev. St Charles Catholic Church, Arlington, VA), Matthew, and Mark.
Bibliography Donald J. Planty, Security Sector Transformation in the Arab Awakening, (United States Institute of Peace, 2012).
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