Charles Woodruff Yost - Career Timeline

Career Timeline

• 1931: Vice Consul Alexandria, Egypt
• 1932: Vice Consul Warsaw, Poland
• 1933: Resigned from the Foreign Service and became a journalist
• 1935:
  • 1) Progress Report Specialist at the Resettlement Administration
  • 2) Divisional Assistant, U.S. Department of State, Division of Western European Affairs;
• 1936 Assistant Chief, U.S. Department of State, Division of Arms and Munitions Control
• 1939: Assistant Chief, U.S. Department of State, Division of Controls
• 1941:
  • 1) Assistant Chief, U.S. Department of State, Division of Exports and Defense Aid
  • 2) Assistant to the U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippine Commonwealth
• 1941-42: Designated to act in Liaison between Division of European Affairs of State Department and British Empire Division of the Board of Economic Warfare
• 1942:
  • 1) Assistant Chief, U.S. Department of State, Division of European Affairs
  • 2) Assistant Chief, U.S. Department of State, Division of Special Research
• 1943: Office of Foreign Economic Coordination, U.S. Department of State,
• 1943-44: Assistant Chief, U.S. Department of State, Division of Foreign Activity Correlation
• 1944:
  • 1) Executive Secretary, Department of State Policy Committee
  • 2) Executive Secretary, U.S. Department of State, Joint Secretariat of Executive Staff Commission
  • 3) Assistant to the Chairman for the Dumbarton Oaks Conference
• 1945:
  • 1) Special Assistant to the Chairman, Secretary of State Stettinius, U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organizations, San Francisco
  • 2) Secretary-General, U.S. Delegation, Berlin Conference, Potsdam Agreement
  • 3) Assigned as U.S. Political Advisor to General Wheeler, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander to the Southeast Asia Command (SEAC), India & Ceylon
  • 4) Assigned as U.S. Political Advisor to General Thomas Terry, Commander of the American India-Burma Theater
• 1946:
  • 1) Chargé d’affairs, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2) U.S. Delegation to UNESCO, United Nations, Lake Success, New York
  • 3) Political Advisor to U.S. Delegation, General Assembly of the United Nations
• 1947: First Secretary & Counselor, Prague, Czechoslovakia
• 1947-49: First Secretary & Counselor of Legation, Vienna, Austria
• 1949:
  • 1) Member of U.S. Delegation; Special Assistant to Ambassador at Large for Sixth Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting, Paris, France
  • 2) Member of Delegation to Fourth Regular Session of GA of UN as Special Assistant to Ambassador at Large
  • 3) Director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State
• 1950:
  • 1) Director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State
  • 2) Special Assistant to Ambassador at Large, Deputy Policy Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations, New York
  • 3) European Affairs Rep., U.S. Department of State, on Policy Comm. on Immigration and Naturalization
  • 4) U.S. Department of State, Policy Planning Staff
• 1950-53: Counselor with Personal rank of Minister, Athens, Greece
• 1953: Deputy High Commissioner & Deputy Chief of Mission, Vienna, Austria
• 1954: Minister, Vientiane, Laos
• 1955-1956: Ambassador, Laos
• 1956: Minister, Paris, France
• 1957-58: Ambassador, Damascus, Syria
• 1958:Foreign Affairs Specialist, U.S. Department of State, Policy Planning Staff
• 1958-61: Ambassador, Rabat, Morocco
• 1961-65: U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations with Adlai Stevenson
• 1965-66: U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations with Arthur Goldberg
• 1966:
  • 1) Resigned from the Foreign Service
  • 2) Chairman, United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE), New Delhi
  • 3) Bureau of Near East & South Asian Affairs, State Department
• 1966-69: Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
• 1967:
  • 1) Consultant to the State Department, member of the Panel of Advisers on Near East, South Asian and International Organizations
  • 2) President Johnson's Special Envoy to the Middle East (May–June)
• 1968:
  • 1) U.S. Presidential envoy to Egypt
  • 2) Head of the State Department Cyprus Study Group
• 1969-71:U.S. Representative to the United Nations, New York. President of the Security Council
• 1970-80: Member of the Dartmouth Conference Delegation
• 1971: Resigned from the Foreign Service
• 1971-73:
  • 1) Counselor to UN Association
  • 2) Professor at Columbia University's School of International Affairs
• 1973-75: President, National Committee on US-China Relations
• 1974: Professor at Rockefeller Foundation's Villa Serbelloni Study and Conference Center in Bellagio
• 1975: Presidential envoy to Egypt
• 1975-81:
  • 1) Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
  • 2) Professor at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University
  • 3) Chairman, National Committee on US-China Relations
• 1976-81: Special Advisor, Aspen Institute
• 1977: Woodcock delegation to Vietnam.
• 1979: Co-chairman Americans for SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Talks