Ambassador Robert F. Ellsworth

Ambassador Robert Ellsworth was appointed to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on May 7, 2003, by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to term expiring December 31, 2004.

Ambassador Ellsworth is currently Chairman and Founding Partner of Hamilton Apex Technology Ventures, LP, a San Diego, CA, private venture capital fund, and Director of Price Communications Corporation, New York, NY. He is a Member of the U.S.-Russia RAND Business Leaders Forum. His distinguished service in the U.S. Government includes serving as Assistant Secretary, then Deputy Secretary, of Defense, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Assistant to the President, and a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (KS). He has received the Presidential National Security Medal, U.S. Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, and honorary degrees from the University of Ottawa and Boston University. He is also a recipient of the Knight of Honor, Knightly Order of St. John, Berlin, Germany.

Ambassador Ellsworth’s career in business includes being a general partner at Lazard Freres & Co., Chairman of Fairchild Space and Defense Corp and Howmet Corporation, and a board member of the Hamilton Group, Price Communications Corporation, Voice Compression Technologies, Inc., Warner Communications, Inc., General Dynamics Corporation, Allied Chemical, the Aerospace Corporation, and DBA Systems, Inc.

Ambassador Ellsworth is Vice President (and former Chairman of the Council 1990-96) of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, Vice Chairman of The Nixon Center, Director of the Atlantic Council of the United States, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ambassador Ellsworth served two tours of duty as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He received a BSME from the University of Kansas and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. He is admitted to the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the highest courts of Massachusetts, Kansas and the District of Columbia.

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