Under Secretary of State for Management

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The Under Secretary of State for Management is a position in the US State Department .

History of the office

Organizational chart : The administrative structure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (English)

By law of February 7, 1953, the US Congress created the position of Head of Administration for a two-year trial period as the third highest top position within the State Department. Thereafter, the position was not filled, so that between 1955 and 1978 the administrative affairs of the Ministry were handled by a Deputy Head of Department (Deputy Under Secretary) or an Assistant Secretary of State . A Congressional Act of October 7, 1978 created the permanent position of Under Secretary of State for Management.

The United States Under Secretary of State for Management serves as the principal advisor to the foreign minister and the vice foreign minister in matters of allocation and use of the budget of the Ministry of ownership and possession, and staff, including planning, daily operations of the Ministry as well as proposals for institutional reform and modernization.

The head of department (also undersecretary of state) is appointed by the US president with the approval of the US Senate . As a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he is a member of the President's Management Council and is therefore the responsible official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the implementation of the President's Management Agenda . As the head of the administration department, he is responsible for the subdivisions Administration (Bureau of Administration) , Consular Affairs (Bureau of Consular Affairs) and Diplomatic Security (Bureau of Diplomatic Security), each headed by an Assistant Secretary of State . He is also responsible for the human resources subdivision (Bureau of Human Resources) headed by the Director General of the External Action Service and the subdivisions for controlling and general financial affairs (Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services) , public relations (Bureau of Information Resource Management) , foreign real estate ( Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations) , Bureau of Budget and Planning , Office of Management Policy, Rightsizing, and Innovation , Office of Medical Services , Office of Foreign Missions and the Foreign Service Institute .

List of Under Secretaries of State for Management

Under Secretary of State for Management

image	Surname	Beginning of the term of office	Term expires	president
Under Secretary of State for Administration
	Donold B. Lourie	February 16, 1953	March 5, 1954	Dwight D. Eisenhower
	Charles E. Saltzman	June 29, 1954	December 31, 1954	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Under Secretary of State for Management
	Benjamin H. Read	October 1, 1978	January 19, 1981	Jimmy Carter
	Richard T. Kennedy	February 28, 1981	December 15, 1982	Ronald Reagan
	Jerome W. Van Gorkom	22nd December 1982	October 14, 1983	Ronald Reagan
	Ronald I. Spiers	November 23, 1983	May 15, 1989	Ronald Reagan
	Ivan Selin	May 23, 1989	June 23, 1991	George HW Bush
	John FW Rogers	October 9, 1991	January 19, 1993	George HW Bush
	J. Brian Atwood	April 1, 1993	May 10, 1993	Bill Clinton
	Richard M. Moose	2nd August 1993	September 1, 1996	Bill Clinton
	Bonnie R. Cohen	August 20, 1997	January 20, 2001	Bill Clinton
	Grant S. Green, Jr.	March 30, 2001	February 4, 2005	George W. Bush
	Henrietta H. Fore	August 2, 2005	November 15, 2007	George W. Bush
	Patrick F. Kennedy	November 15, 2007	officiating	George W. Bush Barack Obama

Web links

• Homepage
• United States Under Secretary of State for Management in the nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ US Department of State Office of the Historian: Under Secretaries of State for Management . Retrieved September 5, 2011.
2. ^ Department of State Senior Officials . State Department. 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2013.