Thomas R. Pickering
Vice Chairman, Hills & Company
Thomas R. Pickering served as President of International Relations of Boeing Co. until April, 2006 and served as its Senior Vice President of International Relations since January 2001.
Prior thereto, Mr. Pickering was U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs since May 1997. He served as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation from May 1993 to November 1996. He served as President of the Eurasia Foundation from December 1996 to April 1997. He also servedon assignments in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
He holds the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the U.S. Foreign Service. He has held numerous other positions at the State Department, including executive secretary and special assistant to Secretaries Rogers and Kissinger and assistant secretary for the bureau of oceans, environmental and scientific affairs. He serves as Chairman and Director of Carnegie Corp. of New York. He serves as Member of Advisory Board of Eurasia Group. He served as a Director of Council on Foreign Relations Inc.
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- Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-large for Global Women’s Issues, speaks at CSIS
Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-large for Global Women's Issues, spoke today at CSIS about the upcoming MDG Summit. - Early Action on the Health Consequences of the Oil Spill
On April 20th, British Petroleum (BP)’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, causing a sea-floor oil leak one mile beneath the ocean’s surface. - A Look at the World Bank Debate
At a recent World Bank debate, discussion focused on HIV-discordant couples. - The First Fault Lines in Global Health Debate
On August 6th we hosted our first Fault Lines in Global Health debate. If you missed it, you can watch the debate. - Video of the CSIS-Kaiser Forum on the 2010 International AIDS Conference
Watch a video of the CSIS and the Kaiser Family Foundation forum examining the developments arising from the 2010 International AIDS Conference in Vienna. - CSIS-Kaiser Forum on the 2010 International AIDS Conference
CSIS and the Kaiser Family Foundation will hold an August 5 forum examining the major policy, research and other developments arising from the 2010 International AIDS Conference in Vienna. - Fault Lines in Global Health: Universal AIDS Treatment
In the past decade, global health has become a new U.S. foreign policy priority, enjoyed exceptional bipartisan support, and climbed to an annual US government investment of $10 billion, fully a third of all U.S. foreign assistance.
Podcast
- Interview with Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-large for Global Women’s Issues
- Linkages between Gender AIDS and Development: Part 4. Interview with Kelly Hallman
- Linkages between Gender AIDS and Development: Part 3. Interview with Julia Kim
- African Perspectives on Genetically Modified Crops
- Donor funding for health in low and middle-income countries