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Biography

Gregory Schulte

Ambassador Gregory L. Schulte is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the National Defense University Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Ambassador Schulte was the U.S. Permanent Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the United Nations in Vienna from 2005 to June 2009. Ambassador Schulte played an important role in reporting Iran to the UN Security Council, implementing the U.S. nuclear cooperation agreement with India, and advancing the establishment of international nuclear fuel banks.

As Executive Secretary of the National Security Council from 2003 to 2005, Mr. Schulte was responsible for NSC emergency readiness post 9/11, oversaw the White House Situation Room, and assisted in establishment of the Homeland Security Council.

As Senior Director for Southeast European Affairs on the NSC staff from 2000 to 2002, Mr. Schulte advised Presidents Clinton and Bush on U.S. diplomacy and military deployments in Bosnia and Kosovo and collaboration with NATO, UN, and EU.

From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Schulte served as Principal Director for Requirements, Plans and Counterproliferation Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

As Special Assistant to the President from 1998 to 1999, Mr. Schulte advised President Clinton on the Kosovo crisis and oversaw interagency planning and decision-making for the NATO air campaign and subsequent deployment of KFOR and a UN mission.

From 1992 to 1998, Mr. Schulte was assigned to the NATO International Staff where he served as Director for Nuclear Planning as well as Crisis Management and Operations. As Director of the Bosnia Task Force, Mr. Schulte helped NATO organize its first out-of-area deployments into the Balkans.

Mr. Schulte worked for the Secretary of Defense from 1985 to 1992 as Director for Strategic Forces Policy and Assistant for Theater Nuclear Forces Policy.

Mr. Schulte started his career as a Presidential Management Intern, joined the Senior Executive Service in 1992, and received two Presidential Rank Awards.

Mr. Schulte graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and earned a master’s degree in public administration from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. Mr. Schulte runs marathons, with a personal best of 3 hours and 42 minutes.