| Amb. Stapleton Roy
Amb. J. Stapleton Roy, Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, is an expert in foreign policy and international relations, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and U.S.-China relations. Spending forty-five years in the U.S. Foreign Service, he reached the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest Foreign Service rank, serving as the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research and as the U.S. ambassador to Singapore, the People’s Republic of China, and Indonesia.
Amb. Roy is a Senior Advisor of Kissinger Associates, Inc. and advisory director of Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold. His educational credentials include a B.A. in history from Princeton University; post-graduate study of Mongolian language, history, and culture at the University of Washington; and studies at the U.S. Army Russian Institute, Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He is a distinguished graduate of the National War College. Born in Nanjing, China of American missionary parents, Amb. Roy spent much of his career in East Asia, with assignments including Bangkok (twice), Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing (twice), Singapore, and Jakarta. He also specialized in Soviet affairs and served in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. In 2001, he received Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Public Service.
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