Peter Burleigh

Who is Peter Burleigh?

Albert Peter Burleigh is a United States foreign service officer and diplomat. He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy.

Albert Burleigh graduated from Colgate University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1963.

He served as United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka 1995–97, serving concurrently as Ambassador to the Maldives. In 1998–99 he was briefly the acting ambassador to the UN. In 1999 President Clinton nominated Burleigh for the post of United States Ambassador to the Philippines and Palau, but the U.S. Senate never acted upon the nomination, and it was eventually withdrawn. In 2009 he was appointed to serve as the interim American Ambassador to India. In June 2011 Burleigh was selected to succeed Timothy Roemer as the ambassador to India, pending Senate confirmation. He is the first U.S. Ambassador to be fluent in Hindi.