Rick Barton
- Ambassador • Lecturer • Co-Director of Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative, Princeton University
- 2022 SPEAKER
Rick is a United States diplomat, educator, and author. He served as the founding Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations at the U.S. Department of State until September 2014. Currently a lecturer at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, he is also the co-director of the university's Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative (SINSI) with his wife, Kit Lunney.