L.Paul Bremer
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III was named Presidential Envoy
to Iraq on May 6, 2003 and in this capacity is the
Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority. During his 23-year State Department career, Ambassador
Bremer served as Special Assistant or Executive Assistant
to six Secretaries of State. His overseas assignments have
included service at the Embassies in Afghanistan and Malawi
and service as Deputy Chief of Mission at the American
Embassy in Norway. President Reagan named him as Ambassador
to the Netherlands in 1983 where he served for three years.
Ambassador Bremer also served as Executive Secretary of the
State Department and was President Reagan’s Ambassador at
Large for Counter Terrorism. Ambassador Bremer is one of the world’s leading experts on
crisis management, terrorism and homeland security. In
September 1999, the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Dennis Hastert, appointed him Chairman of
the National Commission on Terrorism. In June 2002,
President Bush appointed Ambassador Bremer to the
President’s Homeland Security Advisory Council. He has also
served on the National Academy of Science Commission
examining the role of Science and technology in countering
terrorism and chaired a Heritage Foundation
study, “Defending the Homeland”. During his career, Ambassador Bremer has received the State
Department Superior Honor Award, two Presidential
Meritorious Service Awards and the Distinguished Honor
Award from the Secretary of State. He is a member of the
International Institute for Strategic Studies, and The
Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to being in Iraq, Ambassador Bremer was Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of Marsh Crisis Consulting Company,
a crisis management firm owned by the financial services
firm Marsh & McLennan. From 1989 to 2000, he was Managing
Director of Kissinger Associates, a strategic consulting
firm headed by former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. Before rejoining government, Ambassador Bremer had been a
director of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Akzo Nobel
NV, the Harvard Business School Club of New York and The
Netherland-America Foundation and a Trustee of the Economic
Club of New York. Ambassador Bremer is the Founder and President of the
Lincoln/Douglass Scholarship Foundation, a Washington-based
non-profit organization that provides high school
scholarships to inner city youths. Ambassador Bremer received his BA from Yale University, a
CEP from the Institut D’Etudes Politiques of the University
of Paris, and an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of
Business Administration. His languages are French, Dutch,
and Norwegian.
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Books:My Year in Iraq, January 2006
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