Experts & Advisors
Lee Feinstein
President, McLarty Associates
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Ambassador Lee Feinstein, President of McLarty Associates, has held senior positions at the Departments of State and Defense during a 30-year career in foreign policy and national security.
Experience
He served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Poland (2009-2012), where he negotiated the first continuous presence of U.S. forces in the country. Ambassador Feinstein served as Principal Deputy Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, and as the presidentially appointed trustee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Prior to his ambassadorship, Ambassador Feinstein served on the Presidential Transition Team for former President Barack Obama and as Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2014 to 2022, Ambassador Feinstein was founding Dean of the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and is a trustee of Vassar College.
- Education
- JD, Georgetown University
- MA, City University of New York
- BA, Vassar College
- Affiliations
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Council on Foreign Relations
- NAFSA
