Barry F. Lowenkron (born 1952) is an American specialist in

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. He was Vice President of the Program on Global Security & Sustainability at the

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from 2007 to 2014.Barry Lowenkron to Leave Foundation
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Life

Lowenkron is a graduate of the

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and of

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(1973). He holds an M.A. (1977) from the Nitze School of Advanced International studies at the

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

. From 2005 to 2007 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

, where he taught courses on American Foreign Policy. He has been a

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Fellow on Arms Control and Eastern Europe and a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow. Mr. Lowenkron is a member of the

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. Al Kamen of ''

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' calls Lowenkron a "longtime foreign policy guru...who has worked at

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, the

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and the State Department's policy planning shop."Al Kamen - I'll Have My Chief of Staff Call Your Chief of Staff's Chief of Staff - washingtonpost.com
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Honors

* Ford Foundation Fellow on Arms Control and Eastern Europe * Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow

References

1952 births Living people Maimonides School alumni Northeastern University alumni Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies alumni Johns Hopkins University faculty Ford Foundation fellowships United States Assistant Secretaries of State {{US-poli-bio-stub