Alan Watt (diplomat), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alan Watt (diplomat)

Australian diplomat

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1901

Place of Birth: Croydon, New South Wales, Australia

Date of Death: 18-Sep-1988

Profession: diplomat

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Alan Watt (diplomat)

  • Sir Alan Stewart Watt (13 April 1901 – 18 September 1988) was a distinguished Australian diplomat. Born of Scottish heritage, Watt attended Sydney Boys High School.
  • A graduate of the Universities of Sydney and Oxford, he was a New South Wales Rhodes Scholar for 1921.
  • In 1924, he played singles and doubles tennis at Wimbledon as the captain of Oxford . Watt first joined the Commonwealth Public Service in the Department of External Affairs, in 1937.
  • He served in the United States during World War II and was one of the Australian delegates at the United Nations Conference on International Organization.
  • In 1947 Watt became the Australian minister to the Soviet Union and in 1948 the first Australian Ambassador in Moscow.
  • In 1950 he returned to Australia and was appointed Secretary to the Department and was instrumental in negotiation of the ANZUS and SEATO treaties.
  • He then served as High Commissioner to both Singapore and Southeast Asia (1954–1956), Ambassador to Japan (1956–1960) and Ambassador to Germany (1960–1962).
  • Leaving the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1962, he became a Visiting Fellow of the Australian National University, and Director of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (1963–1969).He wrote a number of books and articles in retirement, including The Evolution of Australian Foreign Policy 1938–1965 (1967, Cambridge University Press, 67-10782), Vietnam - An Australian Analysis (1968, Melbourne, F.
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  • Cheshire for Australian Institute of International Relations), and Australian Diplomat - Memoirs of Sir Alan Watt (1972, Angus and Robertson, ISBN 0-207-12354-3).

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