Thomas R. Pickering

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Thomas R. Pickering

Thomas Reeve Pickering (born November 5, 1931 in Orange , New Jersey ) is a former American diplomat and business manager .

biography

Rise to Ambassador

After attending school, he studied the history of Europe in the Middle Ages at Bowdoin College and graduated in 1953 with a Bachelor of Arts . He then studied at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University , where he earned a Master of Arts degree in 1954 . He then completed another postgraduate course in the history of the Commonwealth of Nations at the University of Melbourne with a scholarship from the Fulbright Commission, completing this in 1956 with an MA in British Commonwealth History . During his studies he was accepted as a member of the renowned Phi Beta Kappa association . After his return to the US he made from 1956 to 1959 his military service in the US Navy .

After completing his studies, he joined the diplomatic service of the US State Department , where he was initially a research specialist for secret services . He then became a political assistant in 1961 in the negotiations on the treaty banning nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, in space and underwater in Geneva , before he was a political assistant at the diplomatic mission in Zanzibar between 1965 and 1967 .

This was followed by a position as Deputy Head of the Representation in Tanzania and then from 1969 to 1973 as Deputy Director of the Office for Political-Military Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Pickering also served as Personal Assistant to Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger. After the end of the tenure of US President Richard Nixon , he was Ambassador to Jordan between 1974 and 1978 .

In 1978 he returned to the Foreign Ministry, where he was Secretary of State for Oceans , International Environmental and Science Affairs ( Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs ). In 1981 he was accredited as ambassador to Nigeria and then in 1983 to El Salvador . He was then from 1985 to 1988 as the successor to Samuel W. Lewis ambassador to Israel .

Between 1989 and 1992 Thomas Pickering was permanent representative and ambassador to the United Nations . After finishing this activity, he was briefly ambassador to India before he was ambassador of the United States to Russia between 1993 and 1996 . After his return to the State Department, he was from 1997 to 2000 Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs ( Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs ).

Activities in the private sector

After his subsequent resignation from the diplomatic service, he moved to the private sector , but continued to deal with international relations .

Initially, between 2001 and 2006, he was Executive Vice President of International Relations at Boeing . During this time, in March 2003, he was also vice chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Iraq . Their report contained 30 special comments on post-war policy in Iraq, which the administration of US President George W. Bush apparently ignored. Since 2004 he has also been chairman of the American Academy of Diplomacy .

He has also worked in numerous other institutions and organizations, such as a board member of the American Ditchley Foundation , the American Iranian Council , the Center for Democracy , the National Bureau of Asian Research , the National Committee on US- China Relations , the Thomas J. Watson Institute and the Henry L. Stimson Center . He was also a member of the advisory boards of Capital Partners for Education and the Partnership for a Secure America as well as a trustee of Carnegie Corporation and the George C. Marshall Foundation .

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