Tom
Pickering is senior vice president for Boeing International
Relations. He joined the company and assumed this position
in January 2001 upon his retirement as U.S.
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. In this
position, Pickering
oversees the company's international affairs, including
those with foreign governments. He is a member of the
company's Executive Council and reports to the Chairman.
Pickering
served as U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs since May
1997. Prior to that, he served briefly as the president of
the Eurasia Foundation, a Washington-based organization that
makes small grants and loans in the states of the former
Soviet Union.
Pickering
held the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in
the U.S. Foreign Service. In a diplomatic career spanning
five decades, he has served as
U.S.
ambassador to the
Russian Federation,
India,
Israel,
El Salvador, Nigeria,
and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Pickering
also served on assignments in
Zanzibar
and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
From
1989 to 1992, he served as Ambassador and Representative to
the United Nations in New York. He also served as Executive Secretary of the Department of
State and Special Assistant to Secretaries William P. Rogers
and Henry A. Kissinger from 1973 to 1974.
Pickering
entered on active duty in the U.S. Navy from 1956-1959, and
later served in the Naval Reserve to the grade of Lieutenant
Commander. Between 1959 and 1961, he served in the Bureau of
Intelligence and Research of the State Department, in the
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and from 1962 to 1964 in
Geneva
as political adviser to the U.S. Delegation to the 18-Nation
Disarmament Conference.
Pickering
received a bachelor's degree, cum laude, with high honors in
history, from
Bowdoin
College
in
Brunswick,
Maine
in 1953. In 1954, he received a master's degree from the
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts
University. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the
University
of
Melbourne
in Australia, and received a second master's degree in 1956.
In 1984, he
was awarded an honorary doctor-in-laws degree from Bowdoin
College, and has received similar honors from 12 other universities.
In
1983 and in 1986, Pickering
won the Distinguished Presidential Award and, in 1996, the
Department of State’s highest award – the Distinguished
Service Award. He is a member of the International Institute
of Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations. He
speaks French, Spanish, Swahili, Arabic and Hebrew.
Pickering
was born Nov. 5, 1931, in Orange, N.J.
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