Mr. Hitchcock is a Senior Associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. He retired from the U.S. Foreign Service as a Career Minister in 1992. From 1989 to 1992, he was director for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the U.S. Information Agency. Earlier postings during his 35-year career include Vietnam, Japan, and Israel.
Mr. Hitchcock's writings on public diplomacy have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Quarterly, the Los Angeles Times, as well as in foreign publications. He authored two reports published by CSIS, Asian Values and the US: How Much Conflict?(1994) and Factors Affecting East Asian Views of the United States: The Search for Common Ground (1997). Mr. Hitchcock was a member of the CSIS Advisory Panel which produced the report, Reinventing Diplomacy in the Information Age, in 1998. He recently wrote about the need for a "positive, better funded US foreign policy."
Mr. Hitchcock is the recipient of Superior Honor Awards from USIA and the Department of State. He received the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy from Tufts University in 1987. He holds a B.A. degree from Dartmouth and M.A. degrees from Columbia and John Hopkins Universities.