State Department Selects Skinner as SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR

AUGUST 30, 2018

Kiron Skinner, the Taube Professor “Kiron Skinner is a national security of International Relations and Politics powerhouse,” said United States at Carnegie Mellon University, has Secretary of State . “She been named senior policy advisor to is a one-woman, strategic-thinking U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. tour de force. I’m confident that she will Skinner also will serve as director enhance our influence overseas, protect of policy planning, one of the State the American people and promote our Department’s most influential positions. prosperity. I am thrilled to bring her on board to the State Department team.” Skinner is the founding director of Carnegie Mellon’s Institute for Politics In addition to U.S. foreign policy, and Strategy (IPS). The center for Skinner’s areas of expertise are research, undergraduate and graduate international relations, international education focuses on university-wide security and political strategy. initiatives in the fields of political science, international relations, national “As director of Carnegie Mellon’s security policy and grand strategy. Institute for Politics and Strategy, Kiron Kiron Skinner is a renowned expert in foreign policy Skinner has created and supported who served on President ’s national Skinner is a renowned expert in foreign countless opportunities for students, security transition team in 2016. policy who served on President Donald faculty and global thought leaders Trump’s national security transition to cut across disciplines to examine a distinguished fellow of CMU’s CyLab team in 2016. key issues shaping our world,” said Security and Privacy Institute within Carnegie Mellon President Farnam the College of Engineering. “I am honored to assume the role Jahanian. “Being called to serve the of Director of the Office of Policy nation in Washington, D.C., reflects her “Kiron is a thought leader in her Planning and Senior Policy Advisor distinguished career and exemplifies field, best-selling author and highly to the Secretary of State,” Skinner the growing role CMU faculty play in accomplished faculty member whose said. “The Office of Policy Planning shaping the policy and research agenda work intersects many disciplines across has a long and distinguished history at the national level.” Carnegie Mellon,” said James E. Rohr, of supporting the Secretary of State chair of the CMU Board of Trustees. and the President in crafting U.S. Skinner directs several other academic “Her expertise will be a tremendous grand strategy. My charge now is to initiatives at CMU, including the Center asset to the nation as she serves in the assemble an intellectually diverse set of for International Relations and Politics State Department.” leading policy thinkers to create a 21st and the Institute for Strategic Analysis. century U.S. grand strategy that brings She holds appointments in the Dietrich Skinner has previously advised several American values and international College of Humanities and Social presidential candidates and was named commitments into focus while Sciences, of Information to the Department of Defense’s Policy supporting the cause of peace, freedom Systems and Public Policy, and the Board in 2017. She begins her new post and security throughout the world.” School of Computer Science. She’s also at the State Department on September 4.

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