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Ambassador Greg Schulte

Gregory L. Schulte

Ambassador Gregory L. Schulte serves as the Permanent Representative of the United States to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the United Nations Office in Vienna.  He is charged with advancing the President's agenda in countering proliferation, terrorism, organized crime, and corruption, while promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy.


Ambassador Schulte served as Executive Secretary of the National Security Council from 2003 to 2005. He was responsible to Dr. Condoleezza Rice for overseeing the NSC Staff, the national security decision-making process, and the White House Situation Room. He traveled extensively with President Bush as the NSC representative on domestic trips and at the President’s Texas ranch.


Ambassador Schulte served as Senior Director for Southeast European Affairs on the NSC Staff from 2000 to 2002, overseeing U.S. diplomacy and military deployments in Bosnia and Kosovo and collaboration with the United Nations and European Union. He helped guide and coordinate interagency efforts to bring democracy to Serbia and prevent civil war in Macedonia.


From 1999 to 2000, Ambassador Schulte served as Principal Director for Requirements, Plans and Counterproliferation Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon. His duties included review of U.S. war plans and policy oversight of efforts to protect U.S. and allied forces in the face of nuclear, biological, and chemical threats.


As Special Assistant to the President for Implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords on the NSC Staff from 1998 to 1999, Ambassador Schulte coordinated U.S. diplomacy and support for the NATO air campaign that stopped ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. He co-chaired the NSC Executive Committee that planned for the subsequent UN and NATO missions in Kosovo.


From 1992 to 1998, Ambassador Schulte was assigned to the NATO International Staff in Belgium. As Director of the Bosnia Task Force, he helped prepare NATO’s first "out of area" operations and manage its relations with the United Nations, Russia, and other Partner countries. He worked with NATO political and military authorities to develop guidance for air strikes in Bosnia, deployment of IFOR, and transition to SFOR. He simultaneously served as Director for Nuclear Planning, assisting in the restructuring of NATO's nuclear weapons posture after the Cold War.


Ambassador Schulte worked for the Secretary of Defense from 1985 to 1992 as Director for Strategic Forces Policy and Assistant for Theater Nuclear Forces Policy. He contributed to two nuclear weapons treaties, two Presidential Nuclear Initiatives, a Strategic Targeting Review, a Failsafe and Risk Reduction Review, and NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group.


Ambassador Schulte has been a member of the Senior Executive Service since 1992, receiving two Presidential Rank Awards. He began public service in 1983 as a Presidential Management Intern in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980 and earned a master’s degree in public administration from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School in 1983.


Ambassador Schulte and his wife Nancy have two grown children.  Since his posting in Vienna, the Ambassador has run marathons in Graz, Vienna, and Ljubljana, which he finished in three hours and 42 minutes.


Ambassador Schulte has a Persian language blog to exchange thoughts with the Iranian public about their government’s nuclear activities.  His blog can be found at:  http://blogs.america.gov/schulte/