Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs

United States
Assistant Secretary of State for
Economic and Business Affairs
United States; Assistant Secretary of State for; Economic and Business Affairs
	Seal of the United States Department of State
	Incumbent; Ramin Toloui; since January 24, 2022
Reports to	Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment
Nominator	President of the United States
Inaugural holder	Willard Long Thorp
Formation	1944
Website	Official website

The Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs is an office in the United States Department of State responsible for managing the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. It was known as the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from December 1944 to September 15, 1972.[1]

The purpose of the bureau is to "[promote] a strong American economy by leveling the playing field for American companies doing business in global markets, attracting foreign investors to create jobs in America, and deploying economic tools to deny financing to terrorists, human rights abusers, and corrupt officials."[2]

Assistant Secretaries of State for Economic and Business Affairs

Name	Assumed office	Left office	President(s) served under
Willard Long Thorp	1946	1952	Harry S. Truman
Harold Francis Linder	1952	1953	Harry S. Truman
Samuel Clark Waugh	1953	1955	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thorsten Valentine Kalijarvi	1957	1957
Thomas Clifton Mann	1957	1960
Edwin McCammon Martin	1960	1962	Dwight D. Eisenhower/John F. Kennedy
Gove Griffith Johnson Jr.	1962	1965	John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson
Anthony Morton Solomon	1965	1969	Lyndon B. Johnson
Philip Harold Trezise	1969	1971	Richard Nixon
Willis Coburn Armstrong	1972	1974	Richard Nixon
Thomas Ostrom Enders	1974	1975	Gerald Ford
Joseph Adolph Greenwald	1976	1976	Gerald Ford
Julius Louis Katz	1976	1979	Gerald Ford/Jimmy Carter
Deane Roesch Hinton	1979	1981	Jimmy Carter
Robert David Hormats	1981	1982	Ronald Reagan
Richard T. McCormack	1983	1985
Douglas W. McMinn	1985	1987
Eugene J. McAllister	1988	1992	Ronald Reagan/George H. W. Bush
Daniel K. Tarullo	1993	1996	Bill Clinton
Alan Philip Larson	1996	1999	Bill Clinton
Earl Anthony Wayne	June 1, 2000	June 3, 2006	George W. Bush
Daniel S. Sullivan	June 6, 2006	January 1, 2009	George W. Bush
Jose W. Fernandez	December 2, 2009	October 2, 2013	Barack Obama
Charles Rivkin	February 13, 2014	January 20, 2017	Barack Obama
Patricia M. Haslach (acting)	January 21, 2017	September 1, 2017	Donald Trump
Manisha Singh	November 22, 2017	January 20, 2021	Donald Trump
Peter D. Haas (acting)[3]	January 20, 2021	August 27, 2021	Joe Biden
Matt Murray (Senior Bureau Official)[4]	August 28, 2021	January 24, 2022
Ramin Toloui	January 24, 2022	Incumbent

References

"Assistant Secretaries of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs". Department History. Office of the Historian. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
"Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs". U.S Department of State. Retrieved October 24, 2021.
"Peter Haas".
"Matt Murray".

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[1] "Assistant Secretaries of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs". Department History. Office of the Historian. Retrieved November 25, 2013.

[2] "Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs". U.S Department of State. Retrieved October 24, 2021.

[3] "Peter Haas".

[4] "Matt Murray".

United States Assistant Secretaries of State (and equivalent ranks)
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Reporting to the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment	Economic and Business Affairs Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Energy Resources Chief Economist of the Department
Reporting to the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security	Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance International Security and Nonproliferation Political-Military Affairs
Reporting to the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs	Educational and Cultural Affairs Global Public Affairs
Reporting to the Under Secretary for Management	Administration Consular Affairs Diplomatic Security Chief Information Officer of the Department Chief Medical Officer and Designated Agency Safety and Health Official Comptroller of the Department and Director of Global Financial Services Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Global Talent Director of Budget and Planning Director of Overseas Buildings Operations Director, Foreign Service Institute Director, Office of Foreign Missions, with the rank of Ambassador
Reporting to the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights	Conflict and Stabilization Operations Coordinator for Counterterrorism, with rank and status of Ambassador-at-Large Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Population, Refugees, and Migration Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking (Ambassador-at-Large) Global Criminal Justice (Ambassador-at-Large)
Reporting directly to the Secretary	Intelligence and Research Legislative Affairs Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive Secretary of the Department Inspector General Legal Adviser Director, Policy Planning Staff Director, Office of Foreign Assistance Director, Office of Civil Rights and Chief Diversity Officer Chief of Protocol of the United States, with the rank of Ambassador Global Women's Issues (Ambassador-at-Large) Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally (Ambassador-at-Large)