Ambassador Thomas “Tom” M.T. Niles was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1939. Upon graduating from Harvard College in 1960 he joined the U.S. Foreign Service. After assignments in Belgrade, Moscow (twice), and the United States Mission to NATO in Brussels, as well as assignments to the Department of State in Washington, he was named by President Reagan to be Ambassador to Canada in 1985. In 1989, he was named by President George H.W. Bush to be Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels. In 1991 he was reassigned to the Department of State as Assistant Secretary for Europe and Canada. In 1993 he was named Ambassador to Greece by President Clinton. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1998 and became President and CEO of the United States Council for International Business in 1999, a position he held until 2005.

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