Ambassador robert ford biography

Canadian poet, translator and diplomat (1915–1998)

This article is about a poet, translator and diplomat. For other people named Robert Ford, see Robert Ford (disambiguation).

Robert Arthur Douglas Ford, CC (January 8, 1915 – April 12, 1998) was a Canadianpoet, translator and diplomat.

Born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of former London Free Press Editor-in Chief and University of Western Ontario Chancellor Arthur Ford, he received his B.A. in history and English in 1937 from the University of Western Ontario and a M.A. in history in 1940 from Cornell University. He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1940 and was Ambassador to Colombia (1957–1959), Yugoslavia (1959–1961), United Arab Republic (1961–1963), and to the USSR (1964–1980). Ford served as a special representative of Canada at the 1st Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade.^[1]

In 1971 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

Bibliography

• Window on the North, Toronto: The Ryerson Press (1956), winner of the 1956 Governor General's Award for Poetry or Drama
• The Solitary City, Toronto : McClelland & Stewart (1969)
• Holes in Space, Toronto : Hounslow Press (1979)
• Needle in the Eye,

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  Robert S. Ford began serving a recess appointment as the U.S. Ambassador to Syria in January  2011; his appointment was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in October 2011. He is the first  American ambassador posted to Damascus since 2005, when the U.S. withdrew its diplomatic presence amid tensions over the Iraq war, human rights complaints, and the February 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Ford’s arrival in 2011 signaled a significant effort by the U.S. to reopen diplomatic dialogue with Syria. In Ford, the U.S. had dispatched to Damascus one of the most skillful and accomplished Arabists in the Foreign Service.

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