Education
Stanford University; Harvard Business School. Harvard University; Phillips Academy.
Diplomat United States Ambassador to Germany
Stanford University; Harvard Business School. Harvard University; Phillips Academy.
He served as the United States. Ambassador to Germany 2005–2008. He has served at The Timken Company (which his great-grandfather Henry Timken founded) as Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer. Timken has been chairman of Securities Investor Protection Corporation, National Association of Manufacturers, The Manufacturing Institute and the Ohio Business Roundtable. He also served on the Advisory Council of the Stanford University School of Business and the United States.-Japan Business Council.
Timken is an honorary citizen of Colmar, France.
He attended Phillips Academy, received his bachelor"s degree from Stanford University and has an Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He is of German descent and was honored by the German-American Heritage Foundation of the United States of America in 2009.
His great-grandfather was from Tarmstedt, Germany, near the city of Bremen.
