Harold W. Geisel
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Harold Geisel (born May 11, 1947) is an American diplomat. He served as Inspector General for the U.S. Department of State from June 2, 2008 to September 30, 2013.


Career

Geisel joined the Department in 1972, completing tours as management or administrative officer in Brussels, Oslo, Bern, and Bamako, and as Consul General in Durban, South Africa. From 1986 to 1993, he served as management counselor at U.S. Embassies in Rome, Bonn, and Moscow. He returned to the Department in 1993 as Executive Assistant to the
Under Secretary of State for Management The Under Secretary of State for Management is a position within the United States Department of State that serves as principal adviser to the Secretary of State and Deputy Secretary of State on matters relating to the allocation and use of Depar ...
, where he supervised the creation of a worldwide process for allocating information technology resources. In 1994, he was assigned as Acting Inspector General of the State Department, pending appointment of a new Inspector General. He held the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Information Management, from 1995 to 1996, during which he was responsible for some 2,000 employees and directed the development of the Department's first IT strategic plan. He returned abroad in 1996, serving as Ambassador to the Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles until 1999, and as a senior negotiator, leading discussions with foreign governments on base access and defense cost burden-sharing from 1999 to 2000.


Background

Geisel has a bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts from
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and his master's degree in Finance from the
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.


References

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