William P. Kiehl
Executive Director
Public Diplomacy Council
Bill Kiehl is Senior Partner of PD Worldwide, consultants in global public affairs, public relations and cross-cultural communications based in Washington, D.C He was Diplomat in Residence at the U.S. Army War College Center for Strategic Leadership and Senior Fellow of the U.S. Army Peacekeeping Institute, 2000-2003. During a 33 year career in the U.S. Foreign Service he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State, Acting Deputy Associate Director of USIA and Staff Director of the Interagency Working Group on U.S. Government-Sponsored International Exchanges and Training. Overseas, Mr. Kiehl was the Director of the U.S. Information Service in Bangkok and was Counselor for Public Affairs in London, Helsinki and Prague. His early postings included Belgrade, Zagreb and Colombo. He escorted the exhibition "Agriculture USA" throughout the former Soviet Union and served as Press Officer in Moscow. A decade later he was Public Affairs Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the CSCE Moscow Conference on the Human Dimension. Mr. Kiehl earned an honors degree from the University of Scranton and an M.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. He was Honorary Visiting Fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. Recent publications include: "Unfinished Business: Foreign Affairs Consolidation was only the Beginning", National Security Studies Quarterly, "Peacekeeper or Occupier? U.S. Experience with Information Operations in the Balkans" International Peacekeeping; Information Operations: Time for a Redefinition? USAPKI; "Partnership: Information Operations and Civil-Military Cooperation in Peacekeeping", Cornwallis VIII, "Can Humpty Dumpty Be Saved?", American Diplomacy and reviews in Parameters and The Foreign Service Journal.
