James Goodby
Former Public Policy Scholar
Professional affiliation
senior fellow (non-residential) at the Brookings Institutions's Center for Northeast Asia Policy Studies
Wilson Center Projects
the possibility of applying the approach to security and cooperation that was pioneered by the CSCE (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe) to non-European world areas
Full Biography
During a career in the Foreign Service, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Finland and held a variety of other diplomatic and policy positions too numerous to mention. In 1995-96, while on leave from Carnegie Mellon University (where he taught from 1989-99), he was Principal Negotiator and Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Security and Dismantlement, and, in 2000-2001, deputy to General John Shalikashvili, the Special Advisor to the President and the Secretary of State for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.