Director of Policy Planning
The Director of Policy Planning is the executive officer of the internal think tank Policy Planning Staff officially appointed by the US State Department .
This position is one of the most prestigious positions in the US State Department and, according to tradition, has been held by one of the most intellectual figures on foreign policy. So the place was, for example, already two national security advisers of the United States , a president of the World Bank Group and several Presidents of the Council on Foreign Relations occupied.
Previous directors of the Policy Planning Staff
- since 2011: Jake Sullivan
- 2009–2011: Anne-Marie Slaughter
- 2007-2009: David F. Gordon
- 2005–2007: Stephen D. Krasner - Professor of Political Science at Stanford University
- 2003-2005: Mitchell Reiss - a diplomat appointed by George W. Bush for Northern Ireland
- 2001–2003: Richard N. Haass - since 2003 President of the Council on Foreign Relations , author, thinker and politician
- 1998-2001: Morton Halperin
- 1997-1998: Greg Craig
- 1994-1996: James Steinberg
- 1993–1994: Samuel W. Lewis - 1977–1985 Ambassador to Israel
- 1989–1992: Dennis Ross - a Middle Eastern diplomat appointed by George Bush and Bill Clinton
- 1986-1989: Richard H. Solomon
- 1984–1986: Peter Rodman - Former Assistant Secretary for Defense of International Security Affairs
- 1983–1984: Stephen W. Bosworth - Dean of Fletcher School , former Ambassador to South Korea and the Philippines
- 1981–1982: Paul Wolfowitz - Former President of the World Bank Group and Deputy Minister of Defense
- 1977–1981: Anthony Lake - National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton
- 1973–1977: Winston Lord - 1977–1985 President of the Council on Foreign Relations , 1985–1989 Ambassador to China
- 1973: James S. Sutterlin
- 1969–1973: William I. Cargo - 1973–1976 ambassador to Nepal
- 1966–1969: Henry D. Owen - Ambassador at Large under President Jimmy Carter
- 1961–1966: Walt Whitman Rostov - National Security Advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson
- 1961: George C. McGhee - Ambassador at Large under President Lyndon B. Johnson
- 1957–1961: Gerard C. Smith - 1968–1973 Director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
- 1953-1957: Robert R. Bowie
- 1950–1953: Paul Nitze - 1963–1967 Secretary of State for the Navy
- 1947–1949: George F. Kennan - former ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia