Background
Wootton, Charles Greenwood was born on August 8, 1924 in Elizabethtown, Illinois, United States. Son of Estel Charles and Bertha (Greenwood) Wootton.
foreign service officer oil company executive
Wootton, Charles Greenwood was born on August 8, 1924 in Elizabethtown, Illinois, United States. Son of Estel Charles and Bertha (Greenwood) Wootton.
Bachelor, Columbia, 1947. Master of Arts, Stanford, 1959. Student, University Kentucky, 1943.
Student, University Connecticut, 1944. Student, Yale, 1945; Student, New York University Medical College, 1946.
With United States Foreign Service, since 1949. Vice consul Stuttgart, Germany, 1949-1951. 2d secretary Manila, Philippines, 1952-1954.
Vice consul, then consul Bordeaux, France, 1954-1956. Desk officer for Viet-Nam, Cambodia and Laos, Department Commerce, 1956-1958. Attache, 2d secretary, then 1st secretary United States Mission to European Committee, Brussels, Belgium, 1959-1964.
Representative United States State Department at Canadian National Defense College, 1964-1965. Economic counselor American embassy, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1965-1970, counselor for economic and commercial affairs Bonn, Bad Godesberg, Germany, 1970-1971, minister economic and commercial affairs, 1971-1974. Deputy secretary general Organization of European Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, 1974-1980.
Chairman Standing Conference of Secretaries General of Coordinated Organizations, 1974-1980, Organization of European Cooperation and Development Ad Hoc Group on Steel Industry, 1977-1978. Senior director foreign and domestic policy planning and analysis, public affairs department Gulf Oil Corporation, Pittsburgh, 1980-1985. Coordinator international public affairs Chevron Corporation, San Francisco, since 1985.
Board directors International Visitors Center of the Bay Area. Member Canadian-American Committee, Committee on Changing International Realities. Member advisory board West Coast region Institute International Education.
Member American Foreign Service Association, National Planning Association (trustee), National Foreign Trade Council (board directors), Rotary (crippled children's committee Ottawa club).
Married Elizabeth Grechko, October 21, 1944. Children– Cheryl, Laurel, Cynthia, Emily and Virginia (twins), Charles.