Donald P. Gregg

Ambassador Donald P. Gregg served as United States Ambassador to the Republic of Korea from September 1989 to 1993.

Mr. Gregg currently is Chairman of the Board of The Korea Society, a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, organization dedicated solely to the promotion of greater awareness, understanding and cooperation between the people of the United States and Korea. 

Following graduation from Williams College in 1951, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency and over the next quarter century was assigned to Japan, Burma, Vietnam and Korea. 

Mr. Gregg was seconded to the National Security Council staff in 1979, where he was in charge of intelligence activities and Asian policy affairs.  In 1982, he was asked by then Vice President George H. W. Bush to become his national security advisor.