Since joining The Scowcroft Group in 1995, Ambassador Gillespie has helped firms in the transportation, energy, financial services, mining, and defense industries to define and achieve their business objectives in emerging markets. He draws on more than 46 years of international experience in business and diplomacy, much of it in Latin America, to provide strategic council and practical advice to firms interested in investments and trade overseas.
He serves on the Board of Directors of Molinos Rio de la Plata, Argentina’s largest food-processing company. He is also a Director of the Chilean-American Chamber of Commerce and the American Academy of Diplomacy. He is a Trustee of the Una Chapman Cox Foundation.
Earlier, as one of the country’s most
senior career diplomats he organized and led the State
Department’s effort to achieve implementing legislation for the
North American Free Trade Agreement and he was a principal
producer of the first Summit of the Americas in 1994.
From 1985 to 1992, Tony Gillespie was Ambassador to Colombia and
then Chile and later served on the White House Staff as Special
Assistant to the President and as Senior Director for Latin
American and the Caribbean at the National Security Council. In
1983, while serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs, Gillespie was named Ambassador and Chief
of Mission in Grenada as U.S. forces launched operations there.
In addition to his ambassadorial posts in Chile, Colombia, and
Grenada, Tony Gillespie has served in Mexico and Nicaragua.
Other diplomatic assignments include the Philippines, Indonesia,
and Belgium, including the U.S. NATO Mission and the State
Department. Ambassador Gillespie graduated from the University
of California at Los Angeles and did graduate work at Syracuse
University’s Maxwell School of Public Affairs.
He is a graduate of the National War College. He was a
commissioned officer in the U.S. Army before entering the
Foreign Service, from which he retired with the rank of Career
Minister.