14 Facts About Nicholas Platt

Nicholas Platt was born on March 10,1936 and is an American diplomat who served as US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Pakistan, Philippines, Zambia, and as a high level diplomat in Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Japan.

Nicholas Platt is the former president of the Asia Society in New York City.

Nicholas Platt is the son of Helen Platt and architect Geoffrey Platt.

Nicholas Platt is articulate in the Chinese, German, French, and Japanese languages.

Nicholas Platt began his career as a research assistant at the Washington Center for Foreign Policy Research before entering the Foreign Service of the United States in 1959.

From 1969 to 1971, Nicholas Platt was chief of the Asian Communist Areas Division of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

Nicholas Platt returned to Washington to serve as Director for Japanese Affairs in 1977 and then served as a staff member on the National Security Council at the White House from 1978 to 1980.

Ambassador Nicholas Platt shared his career experiences through several oral histories that he shared with the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training and are now available as part of Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection, first in 1994 and again in 2005.

On July 22,1982, President Reagan appointed Platt to succeed Frank G Wisner as the US Ambassador to Zambia.

Nicholas Platt presented his credentials on August 31,1982 and served until he left his post on December 17,1984 to become the Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the US Department of State.

On July 2,1991, President Bush appointed Platt to succeed Robert B Oakley as the US Ambassador to Pakistan in Islamabad, where he remained until he left his post on November 3,1992.

Nicholas Platt was succeeded as Ambassador by John Cameron Monjo.

Nicholas Platt was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and was a member of the International Advisory Board of the Financial Times.

Nicholas Platt frequently spends his summers in North Haven, Maine.