Ambassador Carney’s 32 years in government service and work since retiring center on areas of conflict. He was Ambassador to Sudan (1995–1997), and Ambassador to Haiti (1997-1999). His career began in Saigon in 1967. Other posts included Phnom Penh, Bangkok, Jakarta, Pretoria, and Maseru.

He returned to service to spend February-June 2007 in Baghdad as Coordinator for Economic Transition at the U.S. Embassy. He had been part of the original civilian mission in Iraq from March-June of 2003 as Senior Advisor for the Ministry of Industry and Minerals. He took charge of the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince from August 2005 to February of 2006 at the time of Haitian national elections, and then ran the Secretary of State’s Office for Reconstruction and Stabilization for two months.

Assignments with UN peacekeeping missions took him to Phnom Penh in 1992 as the senior American loaned to the UN Transitional Authority for elections in Cambodia. He next went to Mogadishu as Political Adviser to the Somali Effort, UNOSOM II; and then to South Africa with UNOMSA as Political Advisor to the Special Representative of the Secretary General during the 1994 South African elections.

His publications include a large photo book on Sudan (October 2005) done with a British photographer and with his wife. A U.S. Institute of Peace Special Report of November 2007 examined the negotiations and implementation of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement. An op-ed piece in the Washington Post in late June of 2002 addressed political and intelligence failures in Sudan. Other works center on aspects of modern Cambodian history, including the UNTAC Mission. He has written about Iraq in the Washington Post, June 2003 and in Yale Global Online and spoken about Iraq and Sudan in the broadcast media.

He is married to free-lance journalist Victoria Butler and has a daughter.

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