James B. Steinberg
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State Department Deputy Secretary |
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Resigned: March 30, 2011 Confirmed: Jan. 28, 2009 Nominated: Jan. 20, 2009 Announced: Dec. 23, 2008 |
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Bio
- Age: 59
- Education: Yale University, JD (1978); Harvard University, BA (1973)
- From: Austin, TX
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
- Gender: Male
Steinberg brings more than a decade of foreign policy experience as a former White House and congressional military policy adviser. He played a key role in the Clinton administration's responses to crises in Kosovo and East Timor. While working at the Brookings Institution, he became an expert in information technology.
Last Job
- University of Texas, dean, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Other Jobs
- Brookings Institution, foreign policy director
- White House, deputy national security adviser
- State Department, chief of staff
- Syracuse University, Dean of Syracuse's Maxwell School of public administration
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Financial Disclosure
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