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Paul
Bremer (b.
1941) Born:
1941 in Hartford,
Connecticut Education:
--BA from Yale University,
--MBA
from Harvard Graduate School of
Business
Administration. Occupation:
Ambassador--Formerly the
President's Envoy to Iraq. In this
capacity, he serves as the head of the
Coalition Provisional Authority
(CPA). Career
History:
Entered the Stated Department
diplomatic corps in 1966 and rose
through the ranks to serve as the
Deputy Ambassador to Norway from 1976
to 1979. Appointed as Ambassador to the
Netherlands and served from 1983 to
1986. Ambassador Bremer also served as
Executive Secretary of the State
Department and was President
Reagan’s Ambassador-at-Large for
Counter Terrorism, 1986-1989. From 1989
to 2000, Bremer served in the private
sector as the Managing Director of
Kissinger Associates, a strategic
consulting firm headed by former
Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. In
September 1999, Dennis Hastert, the
Speaker of the House of
Representatives, appointed him to serve
as the Chairman of the National
Commission on Terrorism. In June 2002,
President Bush appointed Paul Bremer to
sit on the President’s Homeland
Security Advisory Council. He has also
served on the National Academy of
Science Commission. The Commission's
role was to examine the ability of
science and technology to countering
terrorism. He also chaired a Heritage
Foundation study titled,
“Defending the Homeland.”
After
returning from duty in Iraq, Bremer
became the Chairman of the Advisory
Board for GlobalSecure Corporation, a
company whose focus is "on securing the
homeland with integrated products and
services for the critical incident
response community worldwide." He also
speaks often on the lecture circuit and
has written a book about his time in
Iraq. (See below). Accomplishments:
After the successful invasion of
Iraq in 2003, the Bush Administration's
initial choice for the head of the
occupation authority, General Jay
Garner was fired, and Paul Bremer was
installed as the head of the
Provisional Coalition Authority (CPA).
The CPA was the de facto government of
Iraq until authority was returned to
the Iraqis. While
criticized for some miscues in
governing Iraq; disbanding the 400,000
strong Iraqi army instead of using the
trained troops to keep order being one
example. The full impact of his tenure
will not be known until some point
after the occupation ends, though as
the insurgency continues, many experts
both inside and outside of the U.S.
government blame him for mismanaging
the governing of Iraq and contributing
to the willingness of many Iraqis to
back the insurgents. Published
Works:
Assessing
U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts. : An
article from: Security Management
Languages:
English, French, Dutch, and
Norwegian Awards:bla
--State
Department Superior Honor
Award --The
Distinguished Honor Award
(awarded by the Secretary of
State) Worked/Collaborated
With:
George W. Bush, Colin
Powell Sources:
The Coalition Provisional
Authority--http://www.iraqcoalition.org/bremerbio.html The
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(2006)--Bremer's memoir of his 14
months in Baghdad.
