Director of Policy Planning
Position of the United States Department of State
Director of Policy Planning | |
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![]() Incumbent since January 20, 2021Salman Ahmed | |
Appointer | United States Secretary of State |
Inaugural holder | George F. Kennan |
Formation | 1947 |
Website | https://www.state.gov/about-us-policy-planning-staff/ |
The Director of Policy Planning is the United States Department of State official in charge of the department's internal think tank, the policy planning staff, with a rank equivalent to assistant secretary.[1][2] The position has traditionally been held by many members of the U.S. foreign policy establishment. Former directors of policy planning include two national security advisors, a president of the World Bank, and several presidents of the Council on Foreign Relations.[citation needed]
Directors of policy planning
No. | Name | Assumed office | Left office | President appointed by |
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1 | George F. Kennan | 1947 | 1949 | Harry S. Truman |
2 | Paul Nitze | 1950 | 1953 | |
3 | Robert R. Bowie | 1953 | 1957 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
4 | Gerard C. Smith | 1957 | 1961 | |
5 | George C. McGhee | 1961 | 1961 | John F. Kennedy |
6 | Walt Whitman Rostow | 1961 | 1966 | |
7 | Henry David Owen | 1966 | 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson |
8 | William I. Cargo | 1969 | 1973 | Richard Nixon |
9 | James S. Sutterlin | 1973 | 1973 | Richard Nixon |
10 | Winston Lord | 1973 | 1977 | Gerald Ford |
11 | Anthony Lake | 1977 | 1981 | Jimmy Carter |
12 | Paul Wolfowitz | 1981 | 1982 | Ronald Reagan |
13 | Stephen W. Bosworth | 1983 | 1984 | |
14 | Peter W. Rodman | 1984 | 1986 | |
15 | Richard H. Solomon | 1986 | 1989 | |
16 | Dennis B. Ross | 1989 | 1992 | George H. W. Bush |
17 | Samuel W. Lewis | 1993 | 1994 | Bill Clinton |
18 | James Steinberg | 1994 | 1996 | |
19 | Gregory B. Craig | 1997 | 1999 | |
20 | Morton Halperin[3] | 1998 | 2001 | |
21 | Richard N. Haass | 2001 | 2003 | George W. Bush |
22 | Mitchell Reiss | 2003 | 2005 | |
23 | Stephen D. Krasner | 2005 | 2007 | |
24 | David F. Gordon | 2007 | 2009 | |
25 | Anne-Marie Slaughter | 2009 | 2011 | Barack Obama |
26 | Jake Sullivan | 2011 | 2013 | |
27 | David McKean[4] | 2013 | 2015 | |
28 | Jonathan Finer | 2015 | 2017 | |
29 | Brian Hook | 2017 | 2018 | Donald Trump |
30 | Kiron Skinner[5] | 2018 | 2019 | |
31 | Peter Berkowitz[6] | 2019 | 2021 | |
32 | Salman Ahmed | 2021 | present | Joe Biden |
References
- ^ "Assistant Secretaries and Equivalent Rank". U.S. Department of State. January 20, 2009. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
- ^ "Department Organization Chart". U.S. Department of State. March 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
- ^ "Mort Halperin". www.opensocietyfoundations.org. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ State Department profile for David McKean
- ^ "Kiron Skinner". state.gov. Archived from the original on 2018-11-17.
- ^ "Peter Berkowitz". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
External links
- Policy Planning Staff Homepage
- List of Directors of Policy Planning
- University of Oxford Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
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