Ambassador William Ramsay
William Ramsay, born 1943 in Michigan, received a graduate degree in international economics at the University of Stanford. Between 1989 and 1993, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy, Resources and Food Policy, where he was responsible for U.S. policy on international trade, production of energy, and industrial and agricultural commodities. He concurrently held the position of the U.S. delegate to the International Energy Agency's Governing Board and Chairman of its senior standing policy committee. From 1993 to 1996 he was US Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo. William Ramsay is now Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency and director of its relations with non-member countries.

