American Ambassador. Stephen Warren Bosworth served as Dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University and served as United States Special Representative for North Korea Policy from March 2009 to October 2011. He served three times as a U.S. Ambassador, to South Korea (1997–2001), to the Philippines (1984–1987), and to Tunisia (1979–1981). In 1987, he received the American Academy of Diplomacy's Diplomat of the Year Award. In February 2009 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named Bosworth Special Representative for North Korea policy. Bosworth was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1939. Before his appointment as Ambassador to South Korea he was the Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (1995–1997). Before coming to KEDO, he was president of the United States Japan Foundation. Prior to 1984, his previous foreign service assignments included Paris, Madrid, Panama City, and Washington, D.C. where he was the State Department’s Director of Policy Planning, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for inter-American affairs, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs. He was a member of the International Board of Advisers for the president of the Philippines, and also a member of the boards of International Textile Group and Franklin Templeton Investment Trust Management Co. (Korea). He was a member of the Trilateral Commission. At times he had held teaching and oversight positions at various colleges and universities: Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (1990–1994); Linowitz Chair of International Studies, Hamilton College (1993); Trustee, Dartmouth College (1992–2002), Chairman of Board of Trustees, (1996–1999). He held an A.B. (1961) and an LL.D. (honorary doctorate) (1986) from Dartmouth College. He was a graduate student at George Washington University. He served on the Executive Committee of Americans Elect, a political party seeking to gain ballot access in every state in 2012. On January 3, 2016, Bosworth died at the age of 76 in Boston, Massachusetts.