Wendy Sherman
former under secretary of State for political affairs, lead U.S. negotiator on the nuclear deal with Iran
William Burns
Biden CIA director, career Ambassador and Deputy Secretary of State
R Nicholas Burns
Biden nominee to be Ambassador to China; Senior Counselor, The Cohen Group; Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School
Marc Grossman
Former ambassador to Turkey and Under Secretary of State
Thomas R Pickering
Former SVP, International Relations, Boeing
Zalmay Khalilzad
Ambassador to the UN and Iraq under George W Bush; neoconservative leader
Lawrence S Eagleburger
Former U.S Secretary of State
Eugene Victor Rostow
Dean of Yale Law School, 1955-65
Averell Harriman
Governor of New York; son of the railway magnate, E. H. Harriman
Child Organizations
Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs
Deals with U.S. foreign policy and relations with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
Bureau of International Organization Affairs
The U.S. Government’s primary interlocutor with the U.N. and international agencies
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
First geographical division to be established in the Department of State.
Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
U.S. diplomatic relations with Near Eastern countries
Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
Implements U.S. foreign policy in Europe and Eurasia. The Bureau promotes U.S. interests in the region.
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
Headed by Assistant Secretary of State, responsible for managing and promoting U.S. interests in the region by supporting democracy, trade, and sustainable economic development.
Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
Former State Department bureau
Parents
US Department of State
Federal executive department responsible for carrying out U.S. foreign policy and international relations
