Bill Burns is Senior Advisor for Global Affairs at Evercore. He most recently served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a member of President Biden’s Cabinet, the first career diplomat to lead the CIA. Over the course of three and a half decades in the Foreign Service, Bill served six Presidents and Administrations of both parties—including as Deputy Secretary of State,

Ambassador to Russia and Jordan, and in a number of other senior posts. From 2015 to 2021, Bill was the President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. During those years, he wrote the bestselling book, The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for its Renewal. He earned a bachelor’s from LaSalle University, and master’s and doctoral degrees from Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar.