Burton Levin
Right, 1987
United States Ambassador to Burma
In office
April 7, 1987 – September 30, 1990
Appointed byRonald Reagan
Preceded byDaniel Anthony O'Donohue
Succeeded byDerek Mitchell
Personal details
Born(1930-09-28)September 28, 1930
New York City
DiedOctober 31, 2016(2016-10-31) (aged 86)
Sherborn, Massachusetts, U.S.
SpouseLily Lee Levin
Alma materBrooklyn College
Columbia University
No ambassador was appointed to replace Levin. The U.S. was represented by a succession of chargés d’affaires.

Burton Levin (September 28, 1930 – October 31, 2016) was the SIT Investment Visiting Professor of Asian Policy at Carleton College.

Life

He was born in New York City. He earned his BA in 1952 from Brooklyn College,[1] and his MA in International Affairs at Columbia University and went on to work in the Foreign Service. Levin served as Director of Mission in Thailand, Consul General in Hong Kong and was the United States Ambassador to Burma from 1987 to 1990.

Levin was a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. After retiring from the Foreign Service, he became the head of the Hong Kong office of The Asia Society.

He also sat on the board of directors for the Mansfield Foundation, the China Fund and the Noble Group.[2]

He died in Massachusetts on October 31, 2016.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Nomination of Burton Levin to be United States Ambassador to Burma | …". Archived from the original on 2019-12-05. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
  2. ↑ "Stocks". Archived from the original on April 7, 2013.
  3. ↑ "BURTON LEVIN Obituary (2016) - SHERBORN, MA - New York Times". Legacy.com. 5 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "BURTON LEVIN Obituary (2016) - SHERBORN, MA - New York Times". Legacy.com.


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