22 Facts About Matthew Nimetz

Matthew Nimetz is an American diplomat and a former lawyer and retired managing director of a global private equity firm.

Matthew Nimetz was the United Nations Special Representative for the naming dispute between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Matthew Nimetz was the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science, and Technology.

Matthew Nimetz was born on June 17,1939, in Brooklyn, New York City, to a Jewish family.

Matthew Nimetz is the son of Joseph and Elsie Nimetz and was educated in the Brooklyn public school system and at Williams College where he received a BA in 1960.

Matthew Nimetz subsequently was a Rhodes Scholar and received a BA from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1962, which was upgraded to an MA in 1966.

Matthew Nimetz received his LLB from Harvard Law School in 1965, where he was President of the Harvard Law Review.

Matthew Nimetz served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II from 1965 to 1967, before serving as a staff assistant to President Lyndon B Johnson until 1969, where he worked on the domestic policy staff under Joseph A Califano Jr.

Matthew Nimetz was liaison with various government departments relating to domestic violence following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Matthew Nimetz was appointed by Governor Hugh Carey as the Governor's first commissioner of the Port Authority of New York.

Matthew Nimetz was appointed as a member of the New York Health Advisory Council from 1975 to 1977.

In January 1977, Nimetz was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as Counselor of the United States Department of State.

Matthew Nimetz was the senior State Department official involved in the return of the Crown of St Stephen and other coronation regalia by the United States to Hungary in 1978 and testified before a Congressional Committee relating to the decision to return the crown, which had been entrusted to US forces following the defeat of Hungary in World War II.

Matthew Nimetz was responsible for the supervision of United States security assistance programs, nuclear nonproliferation and the implementation of the State Department's international scientific and technological programs.

Matthew Nimetz continued to be responsible for supervising US policy on the eastern Mediterranean and eastern European countries.

Matthew Nimetz moved to join one of his long time clients, the private equity investment firm General Atlantic LLC in January 2000, where he served as a managing director and as Chief Operating Officer through December 2011, when he became an Advisory Director.

At General Atlantic, Matthew Nimetz was an important part of the team that built General Atlantic into a global growth equity firm with a successful record of investing in growth companies, primarily those that had a technological component.

The major issues between the two neighbors were not resolved in the Interim Agreement, and in 1999, Matthew Nimetz was appointed to succeed Cyrus Vance as the personal envoy of the UN secretary-general regarding the naming dispute.

Matthew Nimetz has continued to work mediating between Greece and the Republic of North Macedonia, for more than two decades.

Matthew Nimetz worked for a nominal salary of US$1 a year in order to find a solution suitable for all concerned.

Matthew Nimetz believed that the long-running issue was capable of resolution and made a number of proposals to the two parties during the course of his mediation efforts to bring them closer to a solution.

Matthew Nimetz is married and has two children and five grandchildren.