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University of Connecticut (BA) Columbia University (JD) Brett H. McGurk (born April 20, 1973) is an American diplomat, attorney, and academic who served in senior national security positions under presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. He currently serves as deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and National Security ...
President Obama sent Special Envoy for Middle East peace George Mitchell on an 8-day tour of the Middle East starting on January 26, 2009, in which Mitchell met with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Israeli army chief of staff Lt. General Gabi Ashkenaz to discuss the peace process along with ...
President Obama changed the timeline of withdrawing troops from Iraq within 16 months of his taking office as outlined in the election to 19 months after taking office. Obama appointed a Special Envoy for Middle East peace (George Mitchell) and a Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan (Richard C. Holbrooke). In 2013, Obama urged the leaders ...
As Special Assistant to President Clinton from 1998 to 2001, he was a member of the U.S. peace team and helped organize the 2000 Camp David Summit. [3] He served in the National Security Council under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017.
In 2012, President Obama found that the United States could provide military assistance and equipment to South Sudan. [7] This was soon followed by a team of five American officers to advise the South Sudanese military. [8] Obama named Donald E. Booth as his special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan on 28 August 2013. [9] [10]
Rob Latour/Shutterstock. Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel under President Bill Clinton and former special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations under President Barack Obama, has ...
Legion of Merit. Bronze Star. Purple Heart. Jonathan Scott Gration (born 1951) [1] is a former United States Air Force officer who worked as a policy advisor to President Barack Obama. Born in Illinois, Gration then grew up in Central and East Africa with his missionary parents. He studied at Rutgers University and Georgetown University before ...
University of Notre Dame (A.B., 1980; J.D., 1983) Occupation (s) Lawyer, diplomat. Known for. Appointed to help close Guantanamo. Paul Lewis is an American lawyer and diplomat. [1] [2] Lewis served as Marine JAG officer and chief counsel to House Armed Services Committee, before President Obama appointed him as Special Envoy for Guantanamo Bay ...