Lawrence P. Taylor

Lawrence Taylor is a former U.S. Ambassador to Estonia, a post he held from 1995 to 1997.  He has extensive experience in foreign affairs leadership, training, management, and policy development as a career diplomat with the U.S. Department of State - both overseas and in the U.S.

Taylor currently serves as a senior advisor to the president of Gettysburg College and is a founding partner of The Gettysburg Leadership Experience at Gettysburg College, a leadership development program for senior executives in the private and public sectors.  In 2007, he was also appointed by Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell as a member of the PA Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

Prior to serving as ambassador, Taylor was director of the Foreign Service Institute/National Foreign Affairs Training Center in Virginia.  He joined the Foreign Service in 1969.  His overseas postings as a political and economic officer include Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Zagreb and Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Jakarta, Indonesia; Ottawa, Canada; and London, United Kingdom.

In addition to the Eisenhower Institute, Taylor serves on the boards of the Baltic-American Partnership Fund, The Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania, and The National Trust for Historic Gettysburg.

Taylor graduated from Ohio University and received a masters degree from American University and another from Harvard University He is a 1985 graduate of the National War College, where he published a paper on U.S. Foreign Policy and International Terrorism.

He was awarded the Department of State Distinguished Honor Award for his leadership at the National Foreign Affairs Training Center and has twice received the Department of State Superior Honor Award for his negotiating achievements relating to the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement and the promotion of U.S. economic interests in Canada and Indonesia.