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Thomas
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Ambassador
Thomas Boyatt
Woodrow Wilson Fellow-in-Residence
February 2 - 6, 2009
Public Address:
"The Hundred Years War of the 20th Century"
Tuesday, February
3, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Shaw Hall, Melvin and Dollie Younts Conference Center, Furman University
The Riley Institute
at Furman welcomed Ambassador Thomas Boyatt, CEO of the to campus
the week of February 2 - 6, 2009 as a Riley Institute Woodrow Wilson
Fellow-in-Residence. Ambassador Boyatt delivered an address, "The
Hundred Years War of the 20th Century" on Tuesday, February
3, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. in Shaw Hall, Melvin and Dollie Younts Conference
Center, Furman University.
Thomas D. Boyatt
entered the Foreign Service in 1959, serving as Vice Consul in Antofagasta,
Chile; Economic Officer at the American Embassy in Luxembourg; and
Political Counselor at the Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus. In 1978,
Ambassador Boyatt was chosen to be Ambassador to Upper Volta, and
in 1980, he was nominated and confirmed as United States Ambassador
to Colombia.
In 1969, Ambassador
Boyatt received the State Department’s Meritorious Honor Award
for risking his life to save passengers and negotiating their release
in Syria during the 1969 hijacking of a plane—on which he
was a passenger—by Palestinian guerrillas. He also received
the William R. Rivkin Award for his leadership in promoting peace
on Cyprus, and the Christian A. Herter Award for his contributions
to diplomacy. After retiring from the Service, Ambassador Boyatt
became Vice President of Sears World Trade, and then became President
of U.S. Defense Systems.
In 2004, Secretary
Colin Powell appointed him to the State Department’s Advisory
Committee on Leadership and Management. He is now the CEO of the
Foreign Affairs Council, a non-partisan group concerned with U.S.
diplomacy, and chairs the Political Action Committee of the American
Foreign Service Association. In 2008, he received the American Foreign
Service Association's Award for "Lifetime Contributions to
Diplomacy."
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