Richard Holbrooke is a career diplomat. Under the Clinton administration, he was US ambassador to Germany and assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian Affairs. Most notably, he was the chief negotiator for the 1995 Dayton Accords that ended the war in Bosnia, and he was the US special envoy to Kosovo before the NATO bombings. Ambassador Holbrooke spoke at the Nexus Institute, Amsterdam, Holland, exactly a month after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.