President Obama has nominated Frederick Barton,
whose home state is Maine, to serve as Assistant Secretary for Conflict
and Stabilization Operations and Coordinator for Reconstruction and
Stabilization at the Department of State.
Frederick "Rick" Barton currently serves as a Senior Advisor to the
Secretary of State.
From December 2009 to October 2011, he served as the
U.S. Representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United
Nations in New York with the rank of Ambassador. Prior to this role, Mr.
Barton was a Senior Adviser and Co-Director of the Post Conflict
Reconstruction Project at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies.
He was also Co-Chair of a working group on Stabilization and
Reconstruction at the United States Institute of Peace, Co-Chair of the
Princeton Project on National Security's Working Group on Reconstruction
and Development and an expert adviser to the Iraq Study Group and the
Task Force on the United Nations.
From 1999 to 2001, he served as the
United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. Mr.
Barton was the founding Director of the Office of Transition Initiatives
at the U.S. Agency for International Development, serving from 1994 to
1999.
Prior to this, Mr. Barton was President of Barton & Gingold, a
strategy and public relations firm in Portland, Maine from 1983 to
1994. He served as New England Director of Public Affairs for the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services from 1978 to 1981.
A graduate of
Harvard College, Mr. Barton earned a Master's in Business
Administration from Boston University, with an emphasis on Public
Management.
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