Matthew Nimetz
| Matthew Nimetz | |
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| Undersecretary of State for International Security Affairs | |
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In office February 21, 1980 – December 5, 1980 |
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| President | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Lucy W. Benson |
| Succeeded by | James L. Buckley |
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Matthew Nimetz June 17, 1939 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic Party (1976–present) |
| Alma mater | Williams College, BA Balliol College, Oxford University, MA Harvard Law School, LLB |
| Religion | Judaism |
Matthew Nimetz (born June 17, 1939) is an American diplomat. He is the United Nations Special Representative for the naming dispute between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia.
Matthew Nimetz was born on June 17, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York City. He is the son of Joseph and Elsie Nimetz and educated in the Brooklyn public school system (Erasmus Hall High School, 1956) and at Williams College where he received a B.A. in 1960. He subsequently was a Rhodes Scholar and received a B.A. from Balliol College, Oxford in 1962 which was upgraded to an M.A. in 1966. He received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1965, where he was President of the Harvard Law Review.
He served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II from 1965 to 1967, before serving as a staff assistant to US President Lyndon B. Johnson until 1969 where he worked on the domestic policy staff under Joseph A. Califano, Jr. He worked with the New York City law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett as an associate from 1969 to 1973 and partner from 1974 to 1977. He also directed the transition of Governor-Elect Hugh Carey of New York in 1974-5, and was a commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and member of the New York Health Advisory Council from 1975 to 1977.
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