Paul Bremer bio

Lewis Paul Bremer, III, M.B.A., is a former U.S. diplomat most noted for his service as the U.S. Presidential Envoy and Administrator of the Provisional Authority of Iraq from 2003-2004. After the U.S. occupied Iraq, Bremer was charged with facilitating a functioning democratic government in that country as it underwent reconstruction.

Prior to his assignment in Iraq, Bremer served at several embassies overseas in addition to other government positions such as Deputy Executive Secretary of State and Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism.

Bremer is currently Chairman of the Advisory Board for Global Secure Corporation, a company that sells products and services related to homeland security.

• Chairman of the Advisory Board, Global Secure Corporation, 2009-present
• Member, Board of Directors, BlastGard International, Inc.
• Recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2004
• U.S. Presidential Envoy and Administrator in Iraq, 2003-2004
• Chief Executive, Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq, 2003-2004
• Co-chair, Homeland Security Task Force, Heritage Foundation, 2001
• Managing Director, Kissinger and Associates, 1989-2001
• Chairman, National Commission on Terrorism, 1999
• Member, President’s Homeland Security Advisory Council, 1992
• Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism, 1986-1989
• Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1983-1986
• Executive Secretary and Special Assistant to Alexander Haig, 1981-1883
• Deputy Executive Secretary of State, 1979-1981
• Deputy Chief of Mission, Oslo, Norway, 1976-1979
• Assistant to Henry Kissinger, 1972-1976
• Founder and President, Lincoln/Douglass Scholarship Foundation
• Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Former Chairman, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
• Recipient, State Department Superior Honor Award
• Recipient, Two Presidential Meritorious Service Awards
• Recipient, Distinguished Honor Award from the Secretary of State

• M.B.A., Harvard University, 1966
• Certificate of Political Studies, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, 1964
• B.A., Yale University, 1963

• My Year In Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope (Co-written with Malcolm McConnell), 2006
• “Assessing U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts,” Security Management, July 28, 2005
• “What I Really Said About Iraq,” New York Times, Oct. 10, 2004
• “Defending the American Homeland,” Heritage Foundation Homeland Security Task Force (Co-written with Edwin Meese), Jan. 22, 2002
• Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism: Report from the National Commission on Terrorism, 2000