Simons, Thomas W(inston), Jr.
SIMONS, Thomas W(inston), Jr.
SIMONS, Thomas W(inston), Jr. American, b. 1938. Genres: History, International relations/Current affairs. Career: U.S. Foreign Service, Washington, DC, career civil servant, 1963-98, member of U.S. delegation to General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade negotiations, 1964-67, consular then political officer at American Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, 1968-71, member of Bureau of Political-Military Affairs and Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, 1972-75, chief of external reporting unit and acting Political Counselor at American Embassy in Moscow, USSR, 1975-77, Deputy Chief of Mission at American Embassy in Bucharest, Rumania, 1977-79, Political Counselor at American Embassy in London, England, 1979-81, Director, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State, 1981-85, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, 1986-89, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Poland, 1990-93, Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to the New Independent States, Washington, DC, 1993-95, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Pakistan, 1996-98. Scholar-in-residence and visiting scholar at US universities. Publications: The End of the Cold War?, 1990; Eastern Europe in the Postwar World, 1991, 2nd ed., 1993; Islam in a Globalizing World, 2003. Address: Davis Center, 625 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.