page_title: Joseph Ralston
section_title: Corporate career
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Ralston / Career / Corporate career
caption_attribution_description: English: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen (left) meets with South Korean Minister of National Defense Cho Song-tae (2nd from right) in Cohen's Pentagon office on Nov. 23, 1999. Cohen and Cho are meeting briefly before starting the 31st Annual U.S.-Republic of Korea Security Consultative Meeting where they will discuss issues relating to the peace and security of the Korean Peninsula. Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Ralston (2nd from left), U.S. Air Force and Commander in Chief of the United Nations Command and the Combined Forces Command Gen. John H. Tilelli Jr. (3rd from left), U.S. Army, joined Cohen, Cho and their counterparts in the meeting. Minister Cho's interpreter Lt. Lee Jae-myong is at the far right.
context_page_description: General Joseph W. Ralston is currently the United States Special Envoy for Countering the Kurdistan Workers Party and holds senior positions in various defense related corporations. He was previously a career officer in the United States Air Force, and served as the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as Supreme Allied Commander for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Europe.
context_section_description: Ralston is director of the Timken Company and the URS Corporation, is on the Board of Directors of Lockheed Martin and has been Vice Chairman of the Cohen Group, since March 2003. He also sits on the advisory board of the American Turkish Council, an American-Turkish lobby group.
caption: Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Ralston and Secretary of Defense William Cohen during the U.S.-Republic of Korea Security Consultative Meeting at The Pentagon, November 1999.
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