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Stephen Bosworth

Stephen W. Bosworth
Stephen W. Bosworth. U.S. State Department official photograph
Born Stephen Warren Bosworth
(1939-12-04)December 4, 1939
Grand Rapids, Michigan, US
Died January 4, 2016(2016-01-04) (aged 76)
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Cause of death Pancreatic cancer
Citizenship American
Alma mater Dartmouth College
Occupation Academic, diplomat
Employer Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Title Dean
Board member of Council on Foreign Relations
Japan Society of Boston
International Board of Advisers for the President of the Republic of the Philippines
Spouse(s) Sandra De Puit (divorced)
Christine Holmes (m. 1984)
Children 4
Awards American Academy of Diplomacy’s Diplomat of the Year Award in 1987
Department of State’s Distinguished Service Award in 1976 and 1986
Department of Energy’s Distinguished Service Award in 1979
Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star (Japan, 2005)
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Stephen Warren Bosworth (December 4, 1939 – January 4, 2016) was an American academic and diplomat. He served as Dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University and served as United States Special Representative for North Korea Policy from March 2009 to October 2011. He served three times as a U.S. Ambassador, to Tunisia (1979–1981), to the Philippines (1984–1987), and to South Korea (1997–2001). In 1987, he received the American Academy of Diplomacy's Diplomat of the Year Award.

In February 2009, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named Bosworth a Special Representative for North Korea policy.

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.


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