J. Stapleton Roy

J. Stapleton Roy Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Roy served as Assistant secretary of State for intelligence and research from 1999 to 2000. 

"Stape Roy joined The Asia Foundation's board of trustees in 2001. He became Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2008. Prior to this position, he was the managing director of Kissinger Associates, Inc., a strategic consulting firm, since 2001 when he retired from the Foreign Service after a career spanning 45 years with the U.S. Department of State. He has spent much of his career in East Asia, where his assignments included Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing, Singapore, and Jakarta. He is a three time ambassador, acting as the top U.S. envoy in Singapore (1984-1986), the People's Republic of China (1991-1995), and Indonesia (1996-1999). In 1996 he was promoted to the rank of career ambassador, the highest rank in the Foreign Service."

Affiliations


 * Chairman, United States Asia Pacific Council
 * Chairman, Council for the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies (SAIS) (appointed Nov/Dec 2001)
 * Co-Chair, United States-Indonesia Society
 * Vice Chairman, National Committee on United States-China Relations
 * Director, Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc.
 * Director, ConocoPhillips
 * Director, American Academy of Diplomacy