Ambassador Paul Bremer

Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III was
named Presidential Envoy to Iraq on
May 6, 2003 and in this capacity is
the Administrator of the Coalition
Provisional Authority.

During his 23-year State Department
career, Ambassador Bremer served
as Special Assistant or Executive
Assistant to six Secretaries of State.
His overseas assignments have
included service at the Embassies in
Afghanistan and Malawi and service
as Deputy Chief of Mission at the
American Embassy in Norway.
President Reagan named him as
Ambassador to the Netherlands in
1983 where he served for three
years. Ambassador Bremer also
served as Executive Secretary of the
State Department and was President
Reagan’s Ambassador at Large for
Counter Terrorism.

Ambassador Bremer is one of the
world’s leading experts on crisis
management, terrorism and
homeland security. In September
1999, the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Dennis Hastert,
appointed him Chairman of the
National Commission on Terrorism. In
June 2002, President Bush
appointed Ambassador Bremer to the
President’s Homeland Security
Advisory Council. He has also served
on the National Academy of Science
Commission examining the role of
Science and technology in
countering terrorism and chaired a
Heritage Foundation study,
“Defending the Homeland”.

During his career, Ambassador
Bremer has received the State
Department Superior Honor Award,
two Presidential Meritorious Service
Awards and the Distinguished Honor
Award from the Secretary of State.
He is a member of the International
Institute for Strategic Studies, and
The Council on Foreign Relations.

Prior to being in Iraq, Ambassador
Bremer was Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Marsh Crisis
Consulting Company, a crisis
management firm owned by the
financial services firm Marsh &
McLennan. From 1989 to 2000, he
was Managing Director of Kissinger
Associates, a strategic consulting
firm headed by former Secretary of
State, Henry Kissinger.

Before rejoining government,
Ambassador Bremer had been a
director of Air Products and
Chemicals, Inc., Akzo Nobel NV, the
Harvard Business School Club of
New York and The Netherland-
America Foundation and a Trustee of
the Economic Club of New York.

Ambassador Bremer is the Founder
and President of the
Lincoln/Douglass Scholarship
Foundation, a Washington-based
non-profit organization that provides
high school scholarships to inner city
youths.

Ambassador Bremer received his BA
from Yale University, a CEP from the
Institut D’Etudes Politiques of the
University of Paris, and an MBA from
Harvard Graduate School of
Business Administration. His
languages are French, Dutch, and
Norwegian.

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