James Goodby

Professor Emeritus James Goodby became a Foreign Service Officer in 1952. He later served with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, representing the United States at several international negotiations, and served as Advisor to AEC Commissioner John von Neumann. He served as principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, Ambassador to Finland, Vice Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the strategic nuclear arms negotiations with the U.S.S.R., Chief of the U.S. Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Europe, and Chief U.S. Negotiator for the Safe and Secure Dismantlement of Nuclear Weapons. He was the Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford in 1996-97 and Distinguished Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, 1993-94.