Christopher Cox Ashby (born 1946) served as the

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Biography

Background and earlier life

Ashby was born in

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. He graduated from

Georgetown University School of Foreign Service The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) is the school of international relations at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. It is considered to be one of the world's leading international affairs schools, granting degrees at both ...

in 1968 where he was a member of the

Philodemic Society The Philodemic Society is a student debating society at Georgetown University founded in 1830 by Father James Ryder, S.J. The Philodemic is among the oldest such societies in the United States, and is the oldest secular student organization at ...

, and received an M.B.A. from the University of Texas Graduate School of Business in 1970. He also attended the

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, ...

and

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

. He spent four years in the Marine Corps and served in

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Longstanding social acquaintance of President Clinton

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Career achievements

He worked in

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, most notably for the

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and Chase Manhattan Bank. He has also worked for the

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. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Small Business Administration, and of the Foreign Policy Association of New York. He is married with four children.

United States Ambassador to Uruguay

He served as

under

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...

and

George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...

, from 1997 to 2001.Embassy biography
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Uruguay ambassadors list

References

1946 births Living people People from Dallas Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni McCombs School of Business alumni MIT Sloan School of Management alumni Harvard Business School alumni Ambassadors of the United States to Uruguay Philodemic Society members {{US-diplomat-stub