Marc Grossman is a retired American diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to Turkey, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.

Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Diplomatic career 3 Present career 4 External links

[edit] Early life and education

Grossman is a native of Los Angeles, California. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara and later received an MSc in international relations from the London School of Economics.

[edit] Diplomatic career

Grossman served at the United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, from 1976 to 1983. He served as the Deputy Director of the Private Law Office of Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Secretary General of NATO, from 1983 to 1986. Grossman served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Ankara from 1989 to 1992. From 1993 to 1994, Grossman managed operations for senior State Department leadership as Executive Secretary of the State Department and Special Assistant to the Secretary of State. Grossman returned to Turkey after being appointed United States Ambassador to Turkey, serving from 1994 to 1997. In Turkey, he promoted security cooperation, human rights and democracy, and a vibrant U.S.-Turkish economic relationship.

Grossman served as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from 1997 to 2000 and was responsible for over 4,000 State Department employees posted in 50 sites abroad with a program budget of $1.2 billion. He played a lead role in orchestrating NATO's 1999 Washington summit, marking the group's 50th anniversary, and helped direct U.S. participation in NATO’s military campaign in Kosovo that same year.

From 2000 to 2001, Grossman served as the Director General of the United States Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources. At the direction of the Secretary of State, he revamped the State Department's human resource strategies, including the Department's strategies for training, assigning, and retaining personnel both at home and abroad. Grossman was appointed Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the Department's third-ranking official, in 2001. In 2004, Grossman attained the Foreign Service's highest rank when the President appointed him to the rank of Career Ambassador. He received the Secretary of State's Secretary's Distinguished Service Award the following year.

Grossman served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until his retirement retired in 2005.

[edit] Present career

Grossman serves as Vice Chairman of The Cohen Group. [1]

[edit] External links

• Profile from The Cohen Group
• Grossman's statement on NATO & Kosovo, Grossman's Statement before the Senate Armed Services Committee, October 28, 1999
• U.S. Interests and Turkey: A briefing by Marc Grossman, March 13, 2000, address to the Middle East Forum
• Photos of Marc Grossman's visit to NATO, February 27, 2003.
• Op-ed: A Middle East Final Act?, German Marshall Fund of the United States, June 6, 2008.
• Op-ed: Opening up trade with Colombia, Boston Globe, July 10, 2008.

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Richard Clark Barkley	United States Ambassador to Turkey 1994 – 1997	Succeeded by Mark Robert Parris
Political offices
Preceded by Thomas R. Pickering	Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs 2001 – 2005	Succeeded by R. Nicholas Burns

v • d • e Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs of the United States of America Robert D. Murphy · Livingston T. Merchant · George C. McGhee · W. Averell Harriman · Eugene V. Rostow · U. Alexis Johnson · William J. Porter · Joseph J. Sisco · Philip Habib · David D. Newsom · Walter J. Stoessel, Jr. · Lawrence S. Eagleburger · Michael Hayden Armacost · Robert Michael Kimmitt · Arnold Lee Kanter · Peter Tarnoff · Thomas R. Pickering · Marc Isaiah Grossman · R. Nicholas Burns · William Joseph Burns