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James Steinberg

Jim Steinberg
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16th United States Deputy Secretary of State
In office
January 29, 2009 – March 30, 2011
President Barack Obama
Preceded by John Negroponte
Succeeded by William Joseph Burns
Deputy National Security Advisor
In office
December 23, 1996 – August 1, 2000
President Bill Clinton
Preceded by Sandy Berger
Succeeded by Stephen Hadley
Director of Policy Planning
In office
March 21, 1994 – December 23, 1996
President Bill Clinton
Preceded by Samuel W. Lewis
Succeeded by Gregory B. Craig
Personal details
Born (1953-05-07) May 7, 1953 (age 63)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Sherburne Abbott
Children 2
Alma mater Harvard University
Yale University

James Braidy "Jim" Steinberg (born May 7, 1953) is an American academic and political advisor, and former Deputy Secretary of State. He is currently a Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Steinberg was born to a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts. He was educated at Phillips Academy (1970),Harvard College (1973), and Yale Law School (1978). His previous positions included a senior fellowship for US Strategic Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, UK (1985–1987), and senior analyst at RAND Corporation (1989–1993). Steinberg also served as a Senior Advisor to the Markle Foundation (2000-2001) and was a member of the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.

During the national elections which brought U.S. President Jimmy Carter into office, Steinberg worked on the presidential campaign of the Carter-Mondale ticket.

Steinberg served as US State Department Director of Policy Planning (1994–1996), then Deputy National Security Advisor (December 1996 – 2001) to US President Bill Clinton. He also served on the Project on National Security Reform's Guiding Coalition.

After serving in the Clinton administration, Steinberg was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and the Institution's vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies (2001–2005). Steinberg was then Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin (2006–2009) until his appointment as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State on January 28, 2009, taking a leave of absence from the School for the duration of his term in office.


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