J. Stapleton Roy

J. Stapleton Roy

Native name	芮效俭
Born	1935 (age 80–81) Nanking, China
Nationality	American
Occupation	Diplomat, ambassador

J. Stapleton Roy (Chinese: 芮效俭; Pinyin: Ruì Xiàojiăn; born 1935) was a senior United States diplomat specializing in Asian affairs. A fluent Chinese speaker, Roy spent much of his career in East Asia, where his assignments included Bangkok (twice), Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing (twice), Singapore, and Jakarta. He also specialized in Soviet affairs and served in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Ambassador Roy served as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research from 1999 to 2000.

Early life and education

Roy was born in Nanking, China, where his father, Andrew Tod Roy, was a Presbyterian missionary and teacher who stayed on in China until he was denounced by the new government and expelled in 1951. His brother is David Tod Roy, a noted scholar and translator of Chinese literature.^[1] While in Shanghai, he attended Shanghai American School (SAS), but left China and SAS when the school was closed in 1949 following the Communist takeover of Shanghai. He attended Mount Hermon School (now Northfield Mount Hermon), and in 1956, graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he majored in history and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Career

Roy rose to become a three-time ambassador, serving as the top U.S. envoy in Singapore (1984–86), the People's Republic of China (1991–95), and Indonesia (1996–99). In 1996, he was promoted to the rank of career ambassador, the highest rank in the United States Foreign Service.

Roy is currently Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., Chairman of the Hopkins-Nanjing Advisory Council^[2] established to assist Hopkins' in its partnership with Nanjing University that jointly manages the Hopkins-Nanjing Center (a graduate degree granting institution on the Nanjing University campus in Nanjing, China), and a director of ConocoPhillips and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. He is also a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Co-Chair of The United States - Indonesia Society (USINDO). Roy's assessments of trends in China and U.S.-China relations are in great demand. He delivered one such keynote address in April 2007 on U.S.-China ties^[3] at the USC U.S.-China Institute.^[4] His views were also part of the institute's Election '08 and the Challenge of China documentary.^[5]

In August 2008, Roy was named director of the Kissinger Institute for Chinese-U.S. Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He sits on the advisory board for Washington, D.C.-based non-profit America Abroad Media.^[6]

References

External links

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/staff/j-stapleton-roy

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by James R. Lilley	US Ambassador to China 1991–1995	Succeeded by Jim Sasser
Government offices
Preceded by Phyllis E. Oakley	Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research November 19, 1999 – January 13, 2001	Succeeded by Carl Ford

United States Ambassadors to China

Envoys to the Qing Empire 1843–1858	Caleb Cushing 1843–44 Alexander Hill Everett 1845–47 John Wesley Davis 1848–50 Humphrey Marshall 1852–54 Robert Milligan McLane 1853–54 Peter Parker 1855–57

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plentipotentiary to the Qing Empire 1858–1913	William Bradford Reed 1857–58 John Elliott Ward 1858–60 Anson Burlingame 1861–67 John Ross Browne 1868–69 Frederick F. Low 1869–73 Benjamin Avery 1874–75 George Seward 1876–80 James Burrill Angell 1880–81 John Russell Young 1882–85 Charles Harvey Denby 1885–98 Edwin H. Conger 1898–1905 William Woodville Rockhill 1905–09 William James Calhoun 1909–13

Envoy to the Republic of China 1913–1929	Paul Samuel Reinsch 1913–19 Charles Richard Crane 1920–21 Jacob Gould Schurman 1921–25 John Van Antwerp MacMurray 1925–29

Ambassador to the Republic of China 1929–1949	Nelson T. Johnson 1929–41 Clarence E. Gauss 1941–44 Patrick J. Hurley 1944–45 John Leighton Stuart 1946–49 Embassy in Taipei 1949–pres.

Chiefs of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing 1973–79	David K. E. Bruce 1973–74 George H. W. Bush 1974–75 Thomas S. Gates Jr. 1976–77 Leonard Woodcock 1977–79

Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 1979–present	Leonard Woodcock 1979–81 Arthur W. Hummel Jr. 1981–85 Winston Lord 1985–89 James R. Lilley 1989–91 J. Stapleton Roy 1991–95 Jim Sasser 1996–99 Joseph Prueher 1999–2001 Clark T. Randt Jr. 2001–09 Jon Huntsman Jr. 2009–11 Gary Locke 2011–14 Max Baucus 2014–pres.

United States Ambassadors to Singapore

Richard H. Donald 1966 (interim)
Francis Joseph Galbraith 1966–69
Charles T. Cross 1969–71
Edwin M. Cronk 1972–75
John H. Holdridge 1975–78
Richard F. Kneip 1978–80
Harry E. T. Thayer 1980–85
J. Stapleton Roy 1985–86
Daryl Arnold 1987–89
Robert D. Orr 1989–92
Jon Huntsman Jr. 1992–93
Ralph L. Boyce 1993–94 (interim)
Timothy Chorba 1994–98
Steven J. Green 1998–2001
Frank Lavin 2001–05
Patricia L. Herbold 2005–09
David Adelman 2010–2013
Kirk Wagar 2013–

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J. Stapleton Roy

Early life and education

Career

References

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