James Baker

James Addison Baker III is an American statesman, attorney, and former diplomat who served as the 61st U.S. Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush and as the 67th Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan. He is currently a senior partner at the law firm Baker Botts and serves as Honorary Chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. He is best known for overseeing U.S. foreign policy during the end of the Cold War and the Gulf War, and for his later roles as co-chair of the Iraq Study Group and as a senior consultant to The Carlyle Group.