Brett McGurk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Brett McGurk

American diplomat

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1973

Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: lawyer, diplomat

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Brett McGurk

  • Brett H.
  • McGurk (born April 20, 1973) is the Frank E.
  • and Arthur W.
  • Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute and a former American diplomat who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W.
  • Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.
  • Most recently, he was the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL.
  • He was appointed to this post by President Barack Obama on October 23, 2015, and was retained in that role by the Trump administration until 2018.
  • McGurk replaced General John R.
  • Allen to whom he had been a deputy since September 16, 2014.
  • McGurk had been slated to leave the post of Special Presidential Envoy in mid-February 2019, but on December 22, 2018, in the wake of President Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria, McGurk announced his resignation from his post effective December 31, 2018.McGurk also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran, at the U.S.
  • Department of State, and from October 2014 through January 2016 led 14 months of secret negotiations with Iran that led to a prisoner swap and release of four Americans from Evin Prison in Tehran, including Washington Post journalist, Jason Rezaian.
  • This assignment, among others, reinforced McGurk's "reputation as a doer", according to the New York Times.
  • He earlier served under President George W.
  • Bush as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan, and under President Obama as Special Advisor to the U.S.
  • National Security Council and Senior Advisor to the U.S.
  • Ambassador to Iraq.
  • McGurk served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Chief Justice William H.
  • Rehnquist during the Court's 2001 October Term.

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