Richard T. McCormack

Richard T. McCormack
Richard T. McCormack
Born	Richard Thomas Fox McCormack; State Department Distinguished Service Award ; State Department Superior Honor Award ; French Legion of Honor

Richard T. McCormack is an American government official and diplomat. He has served nearly five decades advising policymakers on

foreign affairs and global economic developments. He is currently a senior advisor for CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) in Washington, D.C.

Career

After receiving his

House Republican Conference for special projects and to help coordinate the summer intern program. Subsequently, he joined the Peace Corps staff, where he helped lead a project to build 1,000 Peace Corps schools in the third world. In 1967, Arlen Specter’s mayoralty campaign recruited McCormack to draft a major paper on proposals for improving race relations in Philadelphia

.

Following the campaign, McCormack was hired as head of operations research for

Nixon, McCormack served in the Treasury Department as Deputy to the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and later as a consultant advisor to Ambassador Harald B. Malmgren at the White House Office of the Special Trade Representative on a major commodity

policy initiative.

Beginning in 1975, McCormack became consultant to the president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). At AEI, he wrote numerous speeches and papers on foreign and economic policies for federal officials. From 1979 to 1981, McCormack worked as a foreign policy advisor for U.S. Senator Jesse Helms

After the election of

U.S. Ambassador to the OAS, McCormack was awarded the State Department’s Superior Honor Award

.

In 1989, newly elected president

Secretary of State James A. Baker III. McCormack also received the French Legion of Honor

.

After ten years in the

Merrill Lynch. At Bank of America

, he advised the CEO and briefed hundreds of the bank’s clients throughout the world on evolving macroeconomic developments and related issues. He also regularly briefed the bank’s risk committee.

In 2012, he resigned from Bank of America and returned to CSIS to continue his research on the global financial issues.^[6]^[7]

Ambassador McCormack is an active member of the

The Union League Club of New York, the Council of American Ambassadors, and other organizations. His numerous publications include A Conversation with Ambassador Richard T. McCormack, a detailed account of his many years of service in the public and private sectors.^[8]

Early life and education

McCormack was born on March 6, 1941, in

PhD

magna cum laude in 1966.

References

^ "Nomination of Richard T. McCormack To Be an Assistant Secretary of State". The American Presidency Project. July 28, 1982. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
^ "Nomination of Richard Thomas McCormack To Be an Under Secretary of State". The American Presidency Project. February 2, 1989. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
^ "Statement of Ambassador Richard McCormack to the United States China Economic and Security Review Commission. Council on Foreign Relations, New York City" (PDF). McCormack, R. May 19, 2005. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
^ "Testimony of Richard McCormack. Senate Banking Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance, Hearings on Derivatives and Hedge Funds" (PDF). McCormack, R.T. May 16, 2006. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
^ "Ambassador Richard McCormack Joins Merrill Lynch as Vice Chairman". Business Wire. July 17, 2006. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
^ "The Politics and the Economics of the Global Financial Crisis". McCormack, R.T. July 6, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
^ "Financial, Trade, and Currency Instabilities: Rising Concerns". McCormack, R.T. March 17, 2015. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
^ "A Conversation With Ambassador Richard T. McCormack" (PDF). The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. February 27, 2013. Retrieved February 15, 2017.

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by J. William Middendorf	United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States 1985–1989	Succeeded by Luigi R. Einaudi
Government offices
Preceded by Robert David Hormats	Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs 1983–1985	Succeeded by Douglas W. McMinn
Preceded by W. Allen Wallis	Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs 1989–1991	Succeeded by Robert Zoellick

[1] "Nomination of Richard T. McCormack To Be an Assistant Secretary of State". The American Presidency Project. July 28, 1982. Retrieved February 16, 2017.

[2] "Nomination of Richard Thomas McCormack To Be an Under Secretary of State". The American Presidency Project. February 2, 1989. Retrieved February 15, 2017.

[3] "Statement of Ambassador Richard McCormack to the United States China Economic and Security Review Commission. Council on Foreign Relations, New York City" (PDF). McCormack, R. May 19, 2005. Retrieved February 15, 2017.

[4] "Testimony of Richard McCormack. Senate Banking Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance, Hearings on Derivatives and Hedge Funds" (PDF). McCormack, R.T. May 16, 2006. Retrieved February 15, 2017.

[5] "Ambassador Richard McCormack Joins Merrill Lynch as Vice Chairman". Business Wire. July 17, 2006. Retrieved February 15, 2017.

[6] "The Politics and the Economics of the Global Financial Crisis". McCormack, R.T. July 6, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2017.

[7] "Financial, Trade, and Currency Instabilities: Rising Concerns". McCormack, R.T. March 17, 2015. Retrieved February 15, 2017.

[8] "A Conversation With Ambassador Richard T. McCormack" (PDF). The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. February 27, 2013. Retrieved February 15, 2017.

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