Marc Grossman

Marc Grossman ( born September 23, 1951 in Los Angeles, California ) is a former American diplomat who for political affairs the third highest post held as Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United States and also long-time president of the Council on Foreign Relations and was from 2005, Vice Chairman of the Cohen Group. Since February 2011 he is the successor of Richard Holbrooke U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Life

After schooling, he studied first at the University of California at Santa Barbara and received in 1973 a Bachelor of Arts (BA). A subsequent post-graduate studies in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and graduated in 1974 with a Master of Science (M.Sc. International Relations ) from.

Subsequently, he joined the diplomatic service and was for several years from 1976 to 1983 staff at the embassy in Pakistan. After a subsequent activity from 1983 to 1986 as Deputy Director of the Private Office of the NATO Secretary General Peter Carington, as well as a further use in the State Department in Washington, DC, he was from 1989 to 1992 deputy ambassador to Turkey.

After his return to the U.S. was from January 1993 to July 1994 as U.S. Executive Secretary of State Head of the administrative secretariat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before he was after January 1995 to June 1997 as the successor of Richard Clark Barkley ambassador to Turkey. In August 1997, he followed John Kornblum as Assistant Secretary of State for European affairs and was then between 2000 and 2001 Director General of the Foreign Service in the U.S. State Department.

Last held Grossman Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from March 2001 to February 2005 the third-highest post in the U.S. State Department. During this time it came to the so-called " Plame affair", were accused in the high-ranking members of the Bush administration, the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, wife of Bush - critical diplomat Joseph C. Wilson to have passed on to the press. Lewis Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, has been arrested, among others, for perjury and obstruction of justice. Other defendants are Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, one of Bush's key advisers. According to the investigating prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald Libby learned from Grossman of Plame's CIA activities.

After his retirement from government service, he joined the private sector and was vice chairman of the Cohen Group, a US-based consulting firm that also owns stores in the People's Republic of China since 2005. He was at times a member of the board of directors of the private military and security company DynCorp as well as Vice Chairman of the American Academy of Diplomacy.

In February 2011 he was appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan and thus the successor of the deceased in December 2010, Richard Holbrooke.

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