Barry Lowenkron
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Barry Lowenkron is an American
specialist in foreign relations. He is Vice President of the Program on Global Security & Sustainability at the MacArthur Foundation
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Lowenkron is a graduate of the Maimonides School
and of Northeastern University (1973). He holds an M.A. (1977) from the Nitze School of Advanced International studies at the Johns Hopkins University
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From 2005-07 Lowenkron was Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. From 1979 until 2005, Lowenkron was Adjunct Lecturer in American Foreign Policy at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University
, where he taught courses on American Foreign Policy. He has been a Ford Foundation Fellow on Arms Control and Eastern Europe and a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow. Mr. Lowenkron is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Al Kamen of the Washington Post calls Lowenkron a "longtime foreign policy guru...who has worked at the Pentagon, the CIA and the State Department's policy planning shop."
United States
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specialist in foreign relations. He is Vice President of the Program on Global Security & Sustainability at the MacArthur Foundation
MacArthur Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Based in Chicago but supporting non-profit organizations that work in 60 countries, MacArthur has awarded more than US$4 billion since its inception in 1978...
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Lowenkron is a graduate of the Maimonides School
Maimonides School
Maimonides School is a coeducational, Modern Orthodox, Jewish day school located in Brookline, Massachusetts. The school was founded in 1937 by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and his wife Tonya Soloveitchik...
and of Northeastern University (1973). He holds an M.A. (1977) from the Nitze School of Advanced International studies at the Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
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From 2005-07 Lowenkron was Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. From 1979 until 2005, Lowenkron was Adjunct Lecturer in American Foreign Policy at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
, where he taught courses on American Foreign Policy. He has been a Ford Foundation Fellow on Arms Control and Eastern Europe and a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow. Mr. Lowenkron is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Al Kamen of the Washington Post calls Lowenkron a "longtime foreign policy guru...who has worked at the Pentagon, the CIA and the State Department's policy planning shop."