Thomas R. Pickering

Senior Adviser (Non-resident), Office of the President
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Thomas R. Pickering

Thomas R. Pickering is currently vice chair of Hills & Company. Ambassador Pickering served as under secretary of state for political affairs (1997–2000) and as U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and Jordan. He was also U.S. ambassador and representative to the United Nations in New York, where he led the U.S. effort to build a coalition in the UN Security Council during and after the first Gulf War. He has held additional positions in Tanzania, Geneva, and Washington, including as assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Oceans, Environmental, and Scientific Affairs and as special assistant to Secretaries of State William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger. After retiring from the State Department in 2000, Ambassador Pickering joined the Boeing Company, where he served for five and a half years as senior vice president for international relations. He holds degrees from Bowdoin College, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the University of Melbourne.