He entered the
US Foreign Service in 1965 as Foreign Service officer-general in
Kuala Lumpur, where he learned the
Malay language. In 1967-1970 he was on detail to the
Agency for International Development with the CORDS program in
Vietnam, where he learned
Vietnamese. His nomination on July 22, 1991 to be
United States Ambassador to Burma was not acted upon by the Senate, due to political concerns at the time. Franklin P. Huddle, Jr. served as
Chargé d'Affaires ad interim in
Rangoon September 1990 to September 1994. Borg acted as 'Diplomat in Residence' for the American University of Rome from 2005 until spring of 2008, the first to hold the position. At the University, he taught one course each semester in addition to participating in various University activities. The classes he taught include Comparative Foreign Politics and Current American Foreign Policy. Borg was one of two advisers for the University's delegation to
Harvard National Model United Nations for the past two sessions. In Spring of 2008, Borg was recognized during the graduation ceremony as the faculty member who most enriched the lives of his students. Borg currently teaches in the international relations program at the
American Graduate School in Paris (AGS). ==References==