John W. Tuthill
John Wills Tuthill (1910-1996) taught at Northwestern University before joining the U.S. Foreign Service in 1940. A highly regarded career diplomat, he was stationed in Latin America, Canada, and Europe, and was U.S. Ambassador to the OECD in Paris from 1962 to 1966. Professor Tuthill was a professor of international politics at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University, was Director General of the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs in Paris. From 1977-1985, he served as the fifth president of the Salzburg Global Seminar, a non-profit organization based in Salzburg, Austria whose mission is to challenge current and future leaders to develop creative ideas for solving global problems. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, he graduated from the College of William and Mary and received graduate degrees from Harvard and New York University. His diplomatic career extended from 1940 to 1969.