London-born American diplomat of Greek origin. In February 2005, Ambassador John Negroponte was appointed as the head of the National Intelligence Directorate (NID), which was established with the report of the September 11 Investigation Commission in America, which was shaken to its core by serious intelligence scandals and intelligence weaknesses.
He was born in London in 1939, the son of a wealthy American-Greek shipowner, and continued his life in America after his family moved to New York.
After graduating from Yale University in 1960, he joined the American State Department. Negroponte, who worked in the political department at the American Embassy in this country between 1964 and 1968, during the most heated period of the Vietnam War, also took part in the delegation that held the Vietnam peace negotiations in Paris between 1968 and 1969.
Later, when the famous Henry Kissinger was the National Security Council Advisor, he worked as the head of the department responsible for Vietnam in this council.
John Dimitri Negroponte (born July 21, 1939) is an American diplomat. In 2018, he was a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a former J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. Prior to this appointment, he served as a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, United States Deputy Secretary of State (2007–2009), and the first ever Director of National Intelligence (2005–2007).
In February 2005, Ambassador John Negroponte was appointed as the head of the National Intelligence Directorate (NID), which was established with the report of the September 11 Investigation Commission in America, which was shaken to its core by serious intelligence scandals and intelligence weaknesses.
Negroponte, who had no direct intelligence experience in his past but was very smart, learned quickly, and had great management skills, emerged as the most powerful and important man of the Bush administration after Vice President Cheeney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Rice.
Another unknown feature of Negroponte is its kinship with the British Royal Palace. Like American President George W Bush, Negroponte is related by blood to Queen Elizabeth.
Negroponte's wife, Mrs. Villiers' father, was Colonel Sir Charles Villiers, who served for years in the special forces unit of the British army (who later became the chairman of British Steel, one of the largest industrial enterprises in England), and her mother was Countess Maria Jose de la Barre. d'Erquelinnes.
Due to these connections with his wife, Negroponte also belongs to the noble class.
Mrs Negroponte (Villiers) is a graduate of the prestigious London School of Economics and worked as a commercial lawyer in Washington. Ms. Negroponte, who was very talented in learning languages, learned the Vietnamese language sufficiently within three to five months. In addition to this language, she also knew Greek, Spanish, and French very well.