Thomas C. Hubbard
U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
Thomas C. Hubbard arrived in the Republic of Korea to assume his duties as Ambassador on September 11, 2001. He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from August 7, 2000, to July 10, 2001. Before that, he served concurrently as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines and to the Republic of Palau from July 1996.
Born in 1943 in Kentucky, Ambassador Hubbard graduated in 1965 from the University of Alabama, where he was selected for Phi Beta Kappa. He joined the Foreign Service in 1965 and was posted in 1966 to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where he served as a Political/Economic officer.
In 1969, he entered Japanese language training at the Foreign Service Institute in Yokohama, Japan. Ambassador Hubbard was then posted to Fukuoka, Japan, as Economic/Commercial officer. In May 1971, he was assigned to the Political Section of U.S. Embassy Tokyo. From Tokyo, Ambassador Hubbard was assigned to the Japan Desk in the Department of State, where he served as Economic Officer from 1973 to 1975. In January 1975, he was posted to the U.S. Mission to the OECD in Paris, serving first as Executive Secretary to the Delegation and later as Energy Advisor. In August 1978, Ambassador Hubbard was again posted to the Political Section of U.S. Embassy Tokyo.
In 1981, Ambassador Hubbard returned to Washington, where he was seconded for one year as Legislative Assistant to Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa. Following this assignment, he directed the Training and Liaison staff of the State Department’s Bureau of Personnel and then served as Philippines Desk Officer in 1984-85. He became Country Director for Japan in June 1985 and held that position until his assignment as Deputy Chief of Mission in the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1987.
From 1990 to 1993, he was posted at the U.S. Embassy in Manila as Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission, and from March 1993 to August 1996 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in Washington.
Ambassador Hubbard is married to Joan Magnusson Hubbard. They have two grown children.
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