 Kurt Tong Prior to arriving in Seoul, Kurt was Counselor for Environment, Science & Health Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing from 2000 to 2003. He was a First Secretary covering macroeconomics and finance at the U.S. Embassy Tokyo in Tokyo from 1996 to 1999, and a Visiting Scholar at the Tokyo University Faculty of Economics from 1995 to 1996. Previous Foreign Service experience includes working in the Office of Japanese Affairs at the State Department in Washington D.C., and at the U.S. Embassy in Manila. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Kurt was an Associate with the Boston Consulting Group, K.K., in Tokyo, Japan. Kurt has a B.A., magna cum laude, from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and studied graduate-level economics at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D.C. He has also studied at the Beijing Institute of Education, Inter-University Program For Chinese Language Studies in Taipei, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo, and International Christian University in Tokyo. Kurt speaks and reads Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. He has published articles in Nihon Keizai Kenkyu (an academic journal of the Japan Center for Economic Research), Foreign Policy, and the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (now Critical Asian Studies). Kurt is the recipient of the 2005 Herbert Salzman Award for Excellence in International Economic Performance, awarded by the State Department for outstanding contributions in advancing United States international relations in the economic field. He is married and has three children.
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