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Heading text = THOMAS E. MCNAMARA = Heading text Thomas E. (Ted) McNamara (born: September 16, 1940) is a career American foreign service officer who has served as American Ambassador to Colombia, Assistant Secretary of State, Special Assistant to the President, Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment, and in numerous other senior positions during his career in government. His overseas postings include Colombia, USSR, Congo, and France.

EARLY CAREER

McNamara entered the Department of State in 1966 and was assigned to Paris, France, where he served on the Vietnam Peace Talks delegation, the first of over 30 such negotiations in which he either participated or led. During the 1970s he participated in most of the major East-West arms control negotiations (e.g. MBFR, [1] SALT, CSCE, CTBT in the American Embassy in Moscow and in Washington. He drafted the American half of the famous Vance-Dobrinin back channel exchanges, which produced agreement on SALT II in 1979. He was also a senior member of the U.S. delegation that successfully negotiated the NATO Theater Nuclear Forces Agreement in 1980. From 1980 to 1983 he was Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d’Affaires in Kinshasa, Zaire.

LATER CAREER

Subsequently, McNamara served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, simultaneously serving as chief negotiator of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), and later as a Director on the National Security Council before his appointment as United States Ambassador to Colombia in 1988 at the height of the Medellin cartel violence. Back in Washington in 1991, he managed the U.S. response to the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103,and initiated and developed the policy that isolated Libya for most of the 1990s.[2] As Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs McNamara developed the strategy that indefinitely extended the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and was Special Negotiator for the Panama Canal Turnover (1997-98).

After three years out of government, as CEO of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas, he was called back after the 9/11 attacks as Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of State. He left government again, but returned in 2006 as a special presidential appointee to reform and reorganize the management of national security information – Program Manager Information Sharing Environment. He is, also, an Adjunct Professor on the faculty of the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University in Washington, DC.

RECOGNITIONS

He is the third recipient of the National Intelligence Distinguished Public Service Medal. His other awards include several Department of State meritorious and superior honor awards, and it’s Distinguished Service Medal, and the Orden de Boyacá, Colombia’s highest honor.

1. ^ http://www.answers.com/topic/mutual-and-balanced-force-reduction-talks 2. ^ Cortright, David and Lopez, George (eds), Uniting Against Terror, MIT Press, 2008.