Education
Bard College.
Bard College.
Grove received an undergraduate degree from Bard College in 1950. Ambassador Brandon Grove’s diplomatic career spans thirty-five years in the United States. Foreign Service under nine presidents and twelve secretaries of state. Born in Chicago (April 8, 1929), he holds degrees from Bard College and the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University.
As an amphibious boat group commander in the United States. Navy, he served to the rank of Lieutenant.
Before joining the United States. Foreign Service in 1959, he worked on the staff of Congressman Chester Bowles, of Connecticut. His diplomatic assignments took him to posts in Africa, India, East and West Berlin, and Jerusalem, where he was consul general during Israel’s war with Lebanon.
In 1974, he became the first American diplomat accredited to East Germany, where he established the embassy in Berlin. During 1984-1987, he served as President Reagan’s ambassador to Zaire.
Among assignments in Washington, he has twice filled positions managing United States. relations with Panama, Central America, and the Caribbean, first as director of the Office of Panamanian Affairs, and later as deputy assistant secretary of state for Inter-AmericanAffairs.
He served on the policy planning staffs of secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and Warren Christopher. Ambassador Grove, during 1988-1992, was director of the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute responsiblefor foreign affairs training throughout the government. He coordinated the design and construction of its permanent facility at Arlington Hall, Virginia.
At Hamilton College, Grove has been the Sol M. Linowitz Professor of International Affairs, teaching a course on diplomacy in practice.
In 2000, Bard College awarded him its John Dewey Medal for Distinguished Public Service, and in 2010 the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters for his lifetime contributions to diplomacy. The University of Missouri Press published his acclaimed autobiography, Behind Embassy Walls: The Life and Times of an American Diplomat, in June 2005.
Ambassador Grove is presidentemeritus of the American Academy of Diplomacy.
