Theodore Colbert III (born 1973) is a businessman who is the Chief Executive Officer of

Boeing Defense, Space & Security Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is a division (business unit) of The Boeing Company based in Arlington, Virginia. It is responsible for defense and aerospace products and services. It was formerly known as Boeing Integrated Defense System ...

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since March 2022. Previously, he was the CEO of Boeing Global Services. Prior to that, he was the Chief Information Officer at The Boeing Company.

Education

He graduated in 1996 from

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where he obtained Bachelor's in Industrial Engineering. He received a bachelor's degree in General Science from

Morehouse College , mottoeng = And there was light (literal translation of Latin itself translated from Hebrew: "And light was made") , type = Private historically black men's liberal arts college , academic_affiliation ...

. He is a member of

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, Gamma Lambda Chapter.

Awards

He has been listed in 2013 and 2022 by the

National Society of Black Engineers The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) is a society that was founded in 1975 at Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana. It is one of the largest student-run organizations in the United States, with core activities centered o ...

as Black Engineer of the Year. He was the first awardee for the Fisher Center prize for Excellence in Driving Transformation from the Fisher Center For Business Analytics at

UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of Californi ...

Sanctions

In September 2022, Foreign Ministry of China spokesperson Mao Ning announced at a press briefing that China has imposed sanctions on Colbert and

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CEO Gregory J. Hayes, in response to the U.S. arms sale to

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. It is not immediately known what the Chinese sanctions against Colbert and Hayes would entail, and it is often mainly symbolic in nature.

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