Barry Lowenkron

Barry Lowenkron is an American specialist in foreign relations. He was Vice President of the Program on Global Security & Sustainability at the MacArthur Foundation from 2007 to 2014.[1]

Barry Lowenkron
Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
In office
October 14, 2005 – August 28, 2007
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byLorne Craner
Succeeded byDavid J. Kramer
Personal details
EducationNortheastern University,
Johns Hopkins University

Life

Lowenkron is a graduate of the Maimonides School and of Northeastern University (1973). He holds an M.A. (1977) from the Nitze School of Advanced International studies at the Johns Hopkins University. From 2005-07 Lowenkron was Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.[2]

From 1979 until 2005, Lowenkron was Adjunct Lecturer in American Foreign Policy at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, where he taught courses on American Foreign Policy. He has been a Ford Foundation Fellow on Arms Control and Eastern Europe and a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow. Mr. Lowenkron is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[1]

Al Kamen of The Washington Post'' calls Lowenkron a "longtime foreign policy guru...who has worked at the Pentagon, the CIA and the State Department's policy planning shop."[3]

Honors
  • Ford Foundation Fellow on Arms Control and Eastern Europe
  • Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow
gollark: To stop tyranny of the majority, elections should be decided entirely randomly.
gollark: The specific bizarre way it's arranged gives tons of power to a bunch of arbitrary regions, especially ones which are likely to vote either way.
gollark: Anyway, thing is, the electoral college is not actually a very good mechanism for giving rural areas more power, that just works as a pretext for it.
gollark: But not split proportionally *by area* or something.
gollark: It might make more sense split proportionally and not winner-takes-all, which I'm pretty sure is the case now.

References
  1. Barry Lowenkron to Leave Foundation
  2. MyWire | AFP: Another top Rice aide quits
  3. Al Kamen - I'll Have My Chief of Staff Call Your Chief of Staff's Chief of Staff - washingtonpost.com
Government offices
Preceded by
Lorne Craner		 Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
October 14, 2005 – August 28, 2007		 Succeeded by
David J. Kramer


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