Earl Anthony Wayne

Earl Anthony Wayne is a senior adviser with the CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development. He served as a U.S. diplomat from 1975 to 2015. The U.S. Senate confirmed Wayne as a career ambassador, the highest rank in the U.S. Foreign Service, in 2010. He is currently a public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and co-chair of its Mexico Institute Advisory Board. He is also a senior non-resident adviser at the Atlantic Council and at the Center for Security and Treasurer of the American Foreign Service Association and chairs its PAC. He writes, speaks and consults on a wide range of topics. Wayne was an advisor for HSBC in Mexico and Latin America on countering illicit finance from 2015 until early 2019. Wayne served as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico (2011-15), coordinating director for development and economic affairs and deputy U.S. ambassador in Kabul, Afghanistan (2009-2011), and U.S. ambassador to Argentina (2006-2009). He worked for three secretaries of state as assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs (EB) (2000-2006). Prior to his service with EB, Wayne worked as principal deputy assistant secretary of state for European affairs, deputy assistant secretary for Europe and Canada, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. mission to the European Union in Brussels, and director for Western Europe at the National Security Council. He received multiple honors during his service, including most recently the 2017 Director General’s Cup for the Foreign Service and the 2015 Cobb Award for Initiative and Success in Trade Development. Wayne has an M.P.A. from the JFK School of Government, Harvard University, an M.A. from Princeton University, an M.A. from Stanford University, and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Revisiting Counter-Narcotics Policy in the Western Hemisphere
Event by Daniel F. Runde , Earl Anthony Wayne , Ambassador Anne Patterson , and Admiral Álvaro Echandía Durán — October 11, 2022

Afghanistan One Year Later: Consequences & Responsibilities
Event by Daniel F. Runde , P. Michael McKinley , Earl Anthony Wayne , Annie Pforzheimer , Fawzia Koofi , Bill O’Keefe , Lieutenant General Michael K. Nagata (Ret.) , and Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) — August 15, 2022

Afghanistan One Year Later: Consequences & Responsibilities
Transcript by Daniel F. Runde , P. Michael McKinley , Earl Anthony Wayne , Annie Pforzheimer , Fawzia Koofi , Bill O’Keefe , Lieutenant General Michael K. Nagata (Ret.) , and Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) — August 15, 2022

Bringing Supply Chains Back to Mexico
Report by John J. Hamre , and Mariana Campero , Ryan C. Berg , Earl Anthony Wayne , Matthew P. Goodman , Dr. Adam S. Posen , Jeffrey J. Schott , Luis de la Calle , Mary E. Lovely , David Xu , Sherman Robinson , Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda — October 20, 2021

Picking Up the Pieces in Afghanistan. What Now?
Event by Daniel F. Runde , Annie Pforzheimer , P. Michael McKinley , Earl Anthony Wayne , and Mark Ward — August 18, 2021

Visas for Our Afghan Partners: What Does the United States Owe Its Afghan Allies?
Event by Earl Anthony Wayne , Daniel F. Runde , Janice Jacobs , Ambassador Ryan Crocker , Jill Marie Bussey , and Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) — July 16, 2021

Preventing Catastrophe in Afghanistan
Event by Earl Anthony Wayne , Annie Pforzheimer , Daniel F. Runde , Ambassador Adela Raz , Representative Michael Waltz, (R-FL) , and Richard Olson — June 16, 2021

Afghanistan: Continued Assistance Flows Are Vital as U.S. Troops Leave
Commentary by Earl Anthony Wayne , James Schwemlein , and Hannah Davin — May 25, 2021

Imagine Peace: Connecting Global Solutions on Reconciliation with an Afghanistan Ready for Peace
Report by Earl Anthony Wayne — December 16, 2020

Online Event: Rethinking Global Supply Chains: An Opportunity to Build Economic Security in the Americas
Event by Daniel F. Runde , Miguel Braun , Earl Anthony Wayne , Anabel Gonzalez , Meredith Broadbent , and Juan Carlos Baker Pineda — June 25, 2020
