Stephen Bosworth (Stephen Warren Bosworth)

Stephen Bosworth

Stephen Bosworth was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1939. He graduated with a B.A. in international relations (1961) and an honorary doctorate (1986) from Dartmouth College. He was also a graduate student at George Washington University. He has two brothers, Brian Bosworth (head of the corporation FutureWorks) and Barry Bosworth (involved in advertisement). Prior to 1984, his previous foreign service assignments include Paris, Madrid, Panama City, and Washington, D.C. where he was the State Department’s Director of Policy Planning, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for inter-American affairs, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs. He was a member of the International Board of Advisers for the President of the Philippines, and also a member of the boards of International Textile Group and Franklin Templeton Investment Trust Management Co. (Korea). He was a member of the Trilateral Commission. At times he has held teaching and oversight positions at various colleges and universities: Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (1990–1994); Linowitz Chair of International Studies, Hamilton College (1993); Trustee, Dartmouth College (1992–2002), Chairman of Board of Trustees, (1996–1999). Before his appointment as Ambassador to South Korea, he was the Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (1995–1997). Before coming to KEDO, he was president of the United States Japan Foundation. Stephen Bosworth served on the Executive Committee of Americans Elect, a political party seeking to gain ballot access in every state in 2012. On January 4, 2016, Stephen Bosworth died at the age of 76 due to pancreatic cancer in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Born

  • December, 04, 1939
  • USA
  • Grand Rapids, Michigan

Died

  • January, 04, 2016
  • USA
  • Boston, Massachusetts

Cause of Death

  • pancreatic cancer

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