Director of Policy Planning

The Director of Policy Planning is the officially established by the U.S. State Department senior officer of the internal think tank, Policy Planning Staff.

This position is one of the most prestigious positions in the State Department and has been, according to the traditions, dressed by one of the most intellectual people objecting to the foreign policy. So the place was occupied for example already of two national security advisers of the United States, a President of the World Bank Group and several Presidents of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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 - an official appointed by George W. Bush diplomat for Northern Ireland
  • 2001-2003: Richard N. Haass - since 2003 Chairman 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 - an official appointed by George Bush and Bill Clinton diplomat for Middle East Affairs
  • 1986-1989: Richard H. Solomon
  • 1984-1986: Peter Rodman - Former assistive Secretary of Defense international security affairs
  • 1983-1984: Stephen W. Bosworth - Dean of the Fletcher School, a former ambassador to South Korea and the Philippines
  • 1981-1982: Paul Wolfowitz - former President of the World Bank Group and Deputy Secretary of Defense
  • 1977-1981: Anthony Lake - national security adviser under 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 Rostow - national security adviser under 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 U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
  • 1953-1957: Robert R. Bowie
  • 1950-1953: Paul Nitze - 1963-1967 Navy Secretary
  • 1947-1949: George F. Kennan - former Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia
Anne-Marie Slaughter The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
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