John Rood

John Rood
John Rood
Former Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
	In office; September 28, 2007 – January 20, 2009
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Robert Joseph
Succeeded by	not announced
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John C. Rood (born about 1969) was Acting Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 13, 2006 as Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation.

From February 2005 to October 2006 he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterproliferation Strategy at the National Security Council. From September 2003 to February 2005, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy at the Department of Defense. Earlier in his career, he served as Director of Proliferation Strategy, Counterproliferation and Homeland Defense at the U.S. National Security Council. Mr. Rood came to the Central Intelligence Agency as a summer intern, then spent eleven years there as a missile development analyst. He was on U.S. Senator Jon Kyl's staff for four years.^[1]^[2]

Mr. Rood received his bachelor's degree from Arizona State University (1990).^[2]

References

^ Lugar, Richard G. (August 2, 2006). "Opening Statement For Nomination Of John Rood" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2009-04-07. Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee meets to consider the nomination of John Rood to be Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation. Mr. Rood has served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterproliferation Strategy since March 2005. Prior to his current position, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy and as Director for Proliferation Strategy, Counterproliferation, and Homeland Defense at the National Security Council. Mr. Rood has also worked at the Central Intelligence Agency and on the staff of our colleague Senator Jon Kyl. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help); line feed character in |quote= at position 176 (help)
^ ^a ^b Dunkhe, Cecile (24-Jul-2007). "JOHN ROOD '90 B.S. - Rood's awakening". ASU Magazine. Arizona State University. Retrieved 2009-04-07. John Rood was debating which summer job to take while studying economics at ASU in the late 1980's when he heard about an internship with the CIA. His decision to apply for the internship resulted in an 11-year stint with the CIA and ultimately a position in the White House and the State Department where he currently serves as Assistant Secretary for International Security and Non-Proliferation. It's been quite a rise for Rood, but he keeps his perspective by recalling his other summer option. "I was thinking about working on a fishing boat," recalls Rood, who tracked missile development programs in countries like North Korea, India and Pakistan while with the CIA. After his CIA assignment, he worked for Sen. Jon Kyl for four years. President George W. Bushed appointed Rood to become special assistant to the president and senior director for counter-proliferation strategy this past summer. Today, Rood is charged with stopping the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in potentially hostile or terrorist nations around the world. In his words, his role is to "lead the State Department's effort to deal with the spread of weapons of mass destruction or WMD." AS one of 22 undersecretaries of state, his goals rely heavily on policy making, developing strategies and then organizing staff, funds and efforts around that policy. Not surprisingly, his job requires lots of travel and meetings. "I have been to four countries in the last three weeks: Israel, the U.K., France and Switzerland," he says. As serious as his job is, John Rood possesses a healthy belief in serendipity about how he arrived there. "I didn't plan all this out, but I'd like to think that when opportunity was knocking at the door I answered it," he said. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help); line feed character in |quote= at position 399 (help)

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Preceded by Robert Joseph	Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security 2006-2009	Succeeded by Ellen Tauscher (nominated March 2009)

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[1] Lugar, Richard G. (August 2, 2006). "Opening Statement For Nomination Of John Rood" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2009-04-07. Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee meets to consider the nomination of John Rood to be Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation. Mr. Rood has served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterproliferation Strategy since March 2005. Prior to his current position, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy and as Director for Proliferation Strategy, Counterproliferation, and Homeland Defense at the National Security Council. Mr. Rood has also worked at the Central Intelligence Agency and on the staff of our colleague Senator Jon Kyl. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help); line feed character in |quote= at position 176 (help)

[Dunkhe2007-2] Dunkhe, Cecile (24-Jul-2007). "JOHN ROOD '90 B.S. - Rood's awakening". ASU Magazine. Arizona State University. Retrieved 2009-04-07. John Rood was debating which summer job to take while studying economics at ASU in the late 1980's when he heard about an internship with the CIA. His decision to apply for the internship resulted in an 11-year stint with the CIA and ultimately a position in the White House and the State Department where he currently serves as Assistant Secretary for International Security and Non-Proliferation. It's been quite a rise for Rood, but he keeps his perspective by recalling his other summer option. "I was thinking about working on a fishing boat," recalls Rood, who tracked missile development programs in countries like North Korea, India and Pakistan while with the CIA. After his CIA assignment, he worked for Sen. Jon Kyl for four years. President George W. Bushed appointed Rood to become special assistant to the president and senior director for counter-proliferation strategy this past summer. Today, Rood is charged with stopping the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in potentially hostile or terrorist nations around the world. In his words, his role is to "lead the State Department's effort to deal with the spread of weapons of mass destruction or WMD." AS one of 22 undersecretaries of state, his goals rely heavily on policy making, developing strategies and then organizing staff, funds and efforts around that policy. Not surprisingly, his job requires lots of travel and meetings. "I have been to four countries in the last three weeks: Israel, the U.K., France and Switzerland," he says. As serious as his job is, John Rood possesses a healthy belief in serendipity about how he arrived there. "I didn't plan all this out, but I'd like to think that when opportunity was knocking at the door I answered it," he said. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help); line feed character in |quote= at position 399 (help)

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