Former Ambassador Ryan Crocker serves as a commissioner for the Afghanistan War Commission. Amb. Crocker is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was previously a diplomat in residence at Princeton University. He was a career foreign service officer who served as a U.S. Ambassador to six countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait and Lebanon. Amb. Crocker received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, in 2009. Other recent awards include the inaugural Bancroft Award, presented by the Naval Academy in 2016, the annual James Joyce Award bestowed by the University College, Dublin, and the West Point’s Thayer Award in 2020. He is an Honorary Marine.