Thomas C. Hubbard

[2][3] He is currently a Senior Director for Asia at McLarty Associates and Chairman of The Korea Society.

Occupying senior State Department positions beginning in the mid-1980s, Ambassador Hubbard played a leading role in policies toward Japan, the Korean Peninsula and the ASEAN nations of Southeast Asia.

He also served as President Clinton's envoy to promote human rights and democracy in Burma and previously was Deputy Chief of Mission and Acting Ambassador to Malaysia.

[5] In 1969 he entered intensive Japanese language study at the Foreign Service Institute in Yokohama, Japan.

Ambassador Hubbard obtained his BA in political science from the University of Alabama in 1965.