Ambassador Richard Burt, Managing Director for Europe, Russia and Eurasia, McLarty Associates
 
Ambassador Richard Burt is the managing director for Europe, Russia and Eurasia at McLarty Associates. McLarty Associates counsels corporations and financial institutions in the United States and abroad on strategic planning government issues, market access, mergers and acquisitions, and political and economic risk issues. He also serves as the U.S. Chair for Global Zero, an international campaign seeking long-term elimination of nuclear weapons.
 
Ambassador Burt served in the Reagan administration as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs and then as US Ambassador to Germany from 1985 to 1989. Under President George H.W. Bush, he served as US Chief Negotiator in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks with the former Soviet Union.
 
Upon leaving public service, Ambassador Burt became a partner with McKinsey & Company, where he led McKinsey’s Public Sector Practice and its work in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He began his wide-ranging experience in global affairs as national security correspondent for The New York Times in Washington.

Ambassador Burt earned his BA in government from Cornell University and his Master’s Degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University