Patrick F. Kennedy is a career foreign service officer

Foreign Service Officer

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, currently U.S. State Department's

United States Department of State

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 Under Secretary of State for Management. He was Director of the Office of Management Policy, Rightsizing and Innovation. He has been Deputy Director for Management at the cabinet level Office of the Director of National Intelligence; he returned to the Department of State on May 7, 2007.

Kennedy was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

United Nations

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 for Management and Reform and previously served as Chief of Staff for the Coalition Provisional Authority

Coalition Provisional Authority

The Coalition Provisional Authority was established as a transitional government following the invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies, members of the Multi-National Force – Iraq which was formed to oust the government of Saddam Hussein in 2003...

 in Iraq

Iraq

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. He was the Assistant Secretary of State for the Clinton Administration

Bill Clinton

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 from 1993 to 2001.

Kennedy holds a B.S.F.S.

Bachelor's degree

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 degree from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

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 of Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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.

Election of 2008

During the U.S. Presidential election, 2008 Patrick F. Kennedy ordered State Department employees in Europe

Europe

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 be barred from attending Sen. Barack Obama

Barack Obama

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's speech in Berlin

Berlin

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 on July 24, 2008 to ensure they displayed political neutrality. Kennedy labeled Obama's visit as a partisan political activity and he forbade employees from attending.

Career

• Under secretary for management, U.S. Department of State, Washington, 2007
• Director Office management Policy, U.S. Department of State, Washington, 2007
• Deputy director management, Office Nat. Intelligence, Washington, 2005–2007
• Chief of staff, Transition Unit, Baghdad, Iraq, 2004
• Chief of staff, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq, 2003
• Ambassador, United States representative for management and reform, United Nations, 2001–2005
• Coordinator for reorganization of foreign affairs agencies, U.S. Department of State, Washington, 1997–2001
• Acting assistant secretary for diplomatic security, U.S. Department of State, Washington, 1998
• Acting under secretary for management, U.S. Department of State, Washington, 1996–1997
• Assistant secretary for administration, U.S. Department of State, Washington, 1993–2001
• Administrate counselor, U.S. Department of State, Cairo
  Cairo
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  , 1991–93
• Executive director, then deputy executive secretary, U.S. Department of State, Paris, 1985–90
• Supervisory general services officer, U.S. Department of State, Paris
  Paris
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  , 1981–1985
• Special assistant to under secretary for management, U.S. Department of State, Washington, 1977–81
• Personnel officer, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State, 1975–76
• Regional administrative officer, Foreign Service, 1973–74
• Member, Foreign Service, 1973.