Thomas Winston Simons Jr. (born September 4, 1938) is an American diplomat and academic.
[1] Born in Crosby, Minnesota, Simons is of German, English and Scots-Irish descent.
Ambassador to Poland, Walter Stoessel, and assisted in making connections which eventually resulted in President Richard M. Nixon's historic visit to China.
[3] He taught at Stanford University upon his retirement from the United States Foreign Service, and holds visiting appointments at Harvard and Cornell.
Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Simons was an adjunct professor at Brown University.