William R. Timken

William Robert Timken, Jr. (* 1938) is the current United States Ambassador to Germany. He has served at The Timken Company as Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and CEO. Timken has been chairman of Securities Investor Protection Corporation, National Association of Manufacturers, The Manufacturing Institute and the Ohio Business Roundtable. He also served on the Advisory Council of the Stanford University School of Business and the U.S.-Japan Business Council.

Timken is an honorary citizen of Colmar, France. He attended Phillips Academy and received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University has an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is married with 6 children.

His great-grandfather was a descendant from Germany who came from Tarmstedt near to Bremen.Fact|date=July 2008

In July 2008 "The Guardian" identified [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-heilbrunn/bush-bans-state-departmen_b_114696.html] Timken as "widely reviled in Germany for his ignorance of foreign affairs" and reported that he enforced a State Department ban on officials at the US embassy in Germany from attending a Barack Obama rally.

External links

* [http://berlin.usembassy.gov/germany/timken_bio.html William R. Timken, Jr. - U.S. Ambassador to Germany] US embassy in Germany bio