Marc Grossman

Marc Grossman (born September 23, 1951 in Los Angeles , California ) is a retired American diplomat who worked for almost 30 years in the United States' foreign service, including as Head of the European Department at the United States Department of State .

Life

Its first use was at the US Embassy in Islamabad from 1976 to 1983 . From 1995 to 1997, Grossman was head of the US ambassador to Turkey . For many years he was President of the Council on Foreign Relations and, from 2005, Deputy Chairman of the China-oriented consulting firm Cohen Group . From February 2011 to November 14, 2012, he succeeded Richard Holbrooke as the US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan .

education

Grossman first studied at the University of California at Santa Barbara , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1973 . Subsequent postgraduate studies in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and completed this course in 1974 with a Master of Science (M.Sc. International Relations).

He then entered the diplomatic service and worked for several years from 1976 to 1983 at the embassy in Pakistan. After a subsequent activity from 1983 to 1986 as deputy director of the private office of NATO Secretary General Peter Carington he was in the State Department in Washington, DC operates.

From 1989 to 1992 he was Deputy Ambassador to Turkey . From 1993 to July 1994 as US Executive Secretary of State head of the administrative secretariat of the State Department before he was US Ambassador to Turkey from January 1995 to June 1997 as the successor to Richard Clark Barkley . During this time the Susurluk scandal occurred . Shortly after the scandal was exposed, Grossman and his adjutant Major Douglas Dickerson had to be recalled prematurely from Turkey.

In August 1997, he followed John Kornblum as Assistant Secretary of State for Affairs of Europe under President Bush jr . And most recently Grossman served under US President Bush Jr. from March 2001 to February 2005 as Undersecretary for Political Affairs, the third highest post in the US State Department. In this office, Grossmann led the talks between the director of the Pakistani secret service ISI, Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed , the National Security Council and CIA director George Tenet a week before the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the Pentagon . During his time as Undersecretary of State, the " Plame affair " broke out in the context of the Iraq war in 2003/5 : the diplomat Joseph C. Wilson caught the Bush administration lying about Iraq and someone from the White House had his wife , Valerie Plame Wilson, who as CIA - agent worked, revealed as a secret collaborator in public. The real affair lay in the fact that the betrayal of their secret service activities constituted a serious criminal offense. The Wilsons became symbolic figures for the protest against the bellicose Bush politics. Lewis Libby , Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff , was arrested on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice , among other things . Other suspects included Dick Cheney and Karl Rove , one of Bush's key advisors. According to investigating prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald , Libby learned about Plame's CIA agent activities through Grossman.

Return to the private sector

After retiring from government service, he moved to the private sector and, from 2005, was Vice Chairman of the Cohen Group, a Washington-based international management consultancy that also has branches in the People's Republic of China . He was also at times a member of the board of directors of the private security and military company DynCorp and vice chairman of the American Academy of Diplomacy .

In February 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointed him US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and thus succeeded Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Josh Rogin: State Department Af-Pak chief stepping down. Accessed August 27, 2018 (English).

↑ Alexander Osang: Sons of Whores Everywhere , Der Spiegel, June 14, 2004

↑ ZENITH MAGAZINE FOR THE ORIENT: Marc Grossman new US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan (February 15, 2011)

↑ Why He Matters (whorunsgov.com) ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Grossman, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American diplomat and business manager
DATE OF BIRTH	September 23, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Los Angeles , California

[for12-1] Josh Rogin: State Department Af-Pak chief stepping down. Accessed August 27, 2018 (English).

[2] Alexander Osang: Sons of Whores Everywhere , Der Spiegel, June 14, 2004

[3] ZENITH MAGAZINE FOR THE ORIENT: Marc Grossman new US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan (February 15, 2011)