The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project DONALD LYMAN Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy Initial interview date: October 14, 2016 Copyright 2017 ADST TABLE OF CONTENTS Background Born in Brooklyn, New York Raised on Long Island, New York and Hudson Valley, NY High School Rockville Centre, NY Undergraduate studies: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1967 NROTC (Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps) scholarship Graduate School: M. A. History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1969 Ford Foundation American-East Asian Fellowship Harvard University, 1972-1973 PhD in Diplomatic History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1976 Entered Foreign Service, January 1977 Bogota, Colombia 1977-1979 Consular and Economic-Commercial rotation Washington, DC 1979-1980 Operations Center Washington, DC 1980-1981 Mexico Desk Officer Mexico City, Mexico 1981-1984 Schedule C appointment as Special Assistant to the Ambassador Acting DCM – July, 1983 – May, 1984 Left Foreign Service, July, 1984 Latin American Division, IBM 1984-1999 Government Relations Finance Operations 1 Software Product Management Ingram Micro 1999-2000 GM of Miami Export Office President of Latin America Sensormatic/Tyco 2001-2009 Head of Sensormatic Latin America (Sensormatic) GM of Access Control and Video Global Business Unit (Tyco) 2009 to present President, Peregrine Security Inc., Manufacturer’s Representative for JCI/Tyco and other major security brands in Northern Latin America. Publications: “US-Mexican Relations: Time for a Change,” in Susan Kaufman Purcell, ed., Mexico in Transition: Implications for U.S. Policy, NY: Council on Foreign Relations, 1988. “Astute Diplomacy: US Policy for a Bilateral Subsidies Pact and Mexico’s entry into GATT,” in Blanca Torres and Pamela Falk, ed., The Adhesion of Mexico to GATT, Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico, 1989.
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