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Nicholas Platt (born March 10, 1936) is an American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Pakistan, Philippines, Zambia, and as a high level diplomat in Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. He is the former president of the Asia Society in New York City.
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Platt served as U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Pakistan, Philippines, Zambia, and as a high level diplomat in Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. He is the former president of the Asia Society in New York City. Platt entered the Foreign Service of the United States in 1959.
AMBASSADOR NICHOLAS PLATT is one of America’s most distinguished Asia experts. Educated at Harvard College and the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Ambassador Platt began his thirty-four-year Foreign Service career with assignments in Hong Kong (1964–68), Beijing (1973–74) and Tokyo (1974–77), and ...
Retired diplomat Nicholas Platt ’57, U.S. ambassador to three countries and president emeritus of the Asia Society, was one of the wise men whom President Richard Nixon called his “China boys” — staffers who smoothed the way to opening relations with China four decades ago.
Nicholas Platt, the fifth president of the Asia Society, has spent most of his life working on relations between the US and Asia. He assumed his current position in 1992 after a thirty four-year career as an American diplomat in Asia which culminated in service as US Ambassador to the Philippines (1987-1991) and Pakistan (1991-1992).
Feb 21, 2012 · HONG KONG, February 21, 2012 — Nicholas Platt, author of China Boys, former U.S. Ambassador, and President Emeritus, Asia Society, joined Asia Society Hong Kong Center to relate what he calls a "worm's-eye-view" of the events surrounding U.S. President Nixon's epochal visit to China in 1972. (46 min., 52 sec.) Read the program summary.
Nicholas Platt (born March 10, 1936) is an American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Pakistan, Philippines, Zambia, and as a high level diplomat in Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. He is the former president of the Asia Society in New York City.
