Executive Secretary of the United States Department of State

Executive Secretary of the United States Department of State
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent Joseph E. Macmanus since August 4, 2014
Appointer	John Kerry
Inaugural holder	Lucius Durham Battle
Formation	1961
Website	http://www.state.gov/s/es/

The Executive Secretary of the United States Department of State is the Director of the Executive Secretariat. The position holds a rank equivalent to an Assistant Secretary.^[1]^[2] Each Executive Secretary is appointed by the Secretary of State.^[1]

The Executive Secretary serves as the liaison and the clearinghouse between the State Department’s bureaus and the leadership offices of the Secretary, the Deputy Secretaries, and the Director of Policy Planning. The Executive Secretary also manages relations between the State Department and the White House, the National Security Council, and other cabinet-level agencies.^[3] As the head of the Executive Secretariat, the Executive Secretary also manages the State Department's Operations Center and prepares briefing papers about the Department during transitions between presidential administrations.^[1]

List of Executive Secretaries

Tenure	Executive Secretary	Secretary of State
1961–1962	Lucius Durham Battle	Dean Rusk
1962–1963	William H. Brubeck
1963–1969	Benjamin Huger Read
1969–1973	Theodore Lyman Eliot Jr.	William P. Rogers
1973–1974	Thomas R. Pickering	Henry Kissinger
1974–1976	George Stoney Springsteen Jr.
1976–1977	C. Arthur Borg
1977–1981	Peter Tarnoff	Cyrus Vance, Edmund Muskie
1981–1983	L. Paul Bremer	Alexander Haig, George P. Shultz
1983–1985	Charles Hill	George P. Shultz
1985–1987	Nicholas Platt
1987–1989	Melvyn Levitsky
1989–1991	J. Stapleton Roy	James Baker
1991–1993	W. Robert Pearson	James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger
1993–1994	Marc Isaiah Grossman	Warren Christopher
1994–1996	Kenneth C. Brill	Warren Christopher
1996–1998	William Joseph Burns	Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright
1998–2001	Kristie Ann Kenney	Madeleine Albright
2001–2002	Maura Ann Harty	Colin Powell
2002–2005	Karl William Hofmann	Colin Powell
2005–2007	Harry K. Thomas, Jr.	Condoleezza Rice
2007–2009	Daniel Bennett Smith	Condoleezza Rice
2009–2012	Stephen D. Mull	Hillary Clinton
2012–2014	John R. Bass	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry
2014–present	Joseph E. Macmanus	John Kerry

References

1 2 3 "Executive Secretary". U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
↑ "Assistant Secretaries and Equivalent Rank". U.S. Department of State. January 20, 2009. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
↑ "State Department gets new executive secretary". Foreign Policy. October 9, 2012. Retrieved December 4, 2015.

External links

Executive Secretariat on the State Department's website

United States Assistant Secretaries of State (and Equivalent Ranks)

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs	African Affairs East Asian and Pacific Affairs European and Eurasian Affairs International Organization Affairs Near Eastern Affairs South and Central Asian Affairs Western Hemisphere Affairs

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment	Economic and Business Affairs Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs	Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance International Security and Nonproliferation Political-Military Affairs

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs	Educational and Cultural Affairs Public Affairs Coordinator for International Information Programs

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Management	Administration Consular Affairs Diplomatic Security Director General of the Foreign Service

Reporting to the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights	Conflict and Stabilization Operations Coordinator for Counterterrorism (Ambassador-at-Large) Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Population, Refugees, and Migration Trafficking in Persons (Ambassador-at-Large) War Crimes Issues (Ambassador-at-Large)

Reporting directly to the Secretary	Intelligence and Research Legislative Affairs Executive Secretary Inspector General Legal Adviser Director of Policy Planning Chief of Protocol Global Women's Issues (Ambassador-at-Large) Global AIDS Coordinator (Ambassador-at-Large)

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