J. Brian Atwood

John Brian Atwood (born July 25, 1942 in Wareham , Massachusetts ) is an American government official and university professor who was, among other things, Under Secretary of State for Management for five weeks in 1993 and Administrator of the US Agency for International Development between 1993 and 1999 .

Life

After attending Wareham High School in his hometown, Atwood began to study administration and history at Boston University , from which he graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). In 1966 he entered the foreign service and found jobs in the following years at the embassy in Ivory Coast and the embassy in Spain . He completed another postgraduate course at American University in 1970 and then worked as an adjunct lecturer at Harvard University and later at Hamilton College . His main occupation was from 1972 to 1977 legal advisor for foreign and defense policy to Thomas Eagleton , who represented the Democratic Party in the US Senate as a senator from Missouri .

On August 3, 1979, Atwood succeeded Douglas J. Bennet, Jr. as Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs, Head of Legal Affairs and Relations with Congress at the State Department . He held this office until January 14, 1981 and in this function was directly subordinate to the then Foreign Minister Cyrus Vance and his successor Edmund Muskie . He then became Dean of Professional Studies and Academic Affairs of the Foreign Service Institute , a foreign department training institution.

In 1986 Atwood became president of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), an agency that runs programs to promote democracy in developing countries . For that places local seven years of service, he was on 1 April 1993 by President Bill Clinton to the undersecretary of state for management (Under Secretary of State for Management) appointed, but remained only five weeks to 10 May 1993 to this item. On 11 May 1993 he succeeded Ronald Roskens as director (administrator) of the independent US Agency for International Development (US Agency for International Development) and held that post until out. He was succeeded as USAID administrator on August 2, 1999 by J. Brady Anderson . On January 6, 1999, he was nominated for the office of ambassador to Brazil , but renounced this on May 24, 1999.

He then served as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Citizens International between 1999 and 2002 . In 2001, Atwood became an advisor to the Panel on Peace Operations established by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan , and in October 2002 he assumed the role of Dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota . In January 2011 he was finally appointed chairman of the Development Assistance Committee ( DAC ) of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and headed it for almost two years until December 2012.

His marriage to Susan J. Atwood in 1991 resulted in a son and two daughters.

Publications

• Perceptions of the US role in world affairs , 1980
• Foreign policy challenges in the 1980s , 1980

Web links

• Resume on the US State Department home page
• CV on the homepage of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
• J. Brian Atwood in nndb (English)
• Proof of publication in the Open Library