Anthony Lake

William Anthony Kirsopp Lake, best known as Tony Lake, (born April 2, 1939) is the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), author, academic, and former American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and political advisor. He has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates, and served as National Security Advisor under U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. Lake is credited as being one of the individuals who developed the policy that led to the resolution of the Bosnian War. He also held the chair of Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C.

Early life

Lake is the grandson of Kirsopp Lake, a member of the Church of England clergy who came from Oxford, England, to America in 1914 to teach New Testament studies at Harvard. Lake's father, Gerard Kirsopp Lake, was a New Deal Democrat and his mother Eleanor (née Eleanor van Someren Hard), a Republican.

Anthony Lake (cricketer)

Anthony Lake (born 22 March 1974 in Antigua) is a West Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. He has played 12 first-class and 26 List A matches in his career, mainly for the Leeward Islands. He also represented Antigua and Barbuda in the cricket tournament at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, and was most recently seen playing for them in the Stanford 20/20 in 2006.

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