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During the Trump administration, he worked with Secretaries Mattis and Tillerson to develop the accelerated campaign against ISIS, which led to the liberation of Raqqa in October 2017.<ref>{{cite document |url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript-View/Article/1188225/department-of-defense-press-briefing-by-secretary-mattis-general-dunford-and-sp/ |accessdate=December 23, 2018 |date=May 19, 2017 |title=Department of Defense Press Briefing by Secretary Mattis, General Dunford and Special Envoy McGurk on the Campaign to Defeat ISIS in the Pentagon Press Briefing Room (transcript)|website=U.S. Department of Defense}}</ref> He has also visited the battlefields of Syria multiple times to help organize the coalition of Arab and Kurdish fighters that has succeeded in defeating ISIS in its former strongholds.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/world/middleeast/syria-raqqa-tabqa.html |work=New York Times |title=In a Desperate Syrian City, a Test of Trump’s Policies|accessdate=December 22, 2018 |date=July 1, 2017 |first=Michael R. |last=Gordon}}</ref> Diplomatically, under President Trump, he has led talks with Russia and Jordan to establish a ceasefire zone in southwest Syria,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/08/us-russia-ceasefire-syria-trump-cooperation-sanctions.html |accessdate=December 23, 2018 |date=August 9, 2017 |first=Laura |last=Rozen |title=US touts success of Syria cease-fire negotiated with Russia |publisher=[[Al-Monitor]]}}</ref> and spearheaded an initiative with Secretary Tillerson to restore ties between Saudi Arabia and Iraq after nearly three decades of dormant relations.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/10/counter-iran-us-promote-iraq-saudi-arabia-ties-tillerson.html |publisher=Al-Monitor |accessdate=December 23, 2018 |title=To counter Iranian sway, US promotes Iraqi-Saudi ties|date=October 20, 2017 |first=Laura |last=Rozen}}</ref>
During the Trump administration, he worked with Secretaries Mattis and Tillerson to develop the accelerated campaign against ISIS, which led to the liberation of Raqqa in October 2017.<ref>{{cite document |url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript-View/Article/1188225/department-of-defense-press-briefing-by-secretary-mattis-general-dunford-and-sp/ |accessdate=December 23, 2018 |date=May 19, 2017 |title=Department of Defense Press Briefing by Secretary Mattis, General Dunford and Special Envoy McGurk on the Campaign to Defeat ISIS in the Pentagon Press Briefing Room (transcript)|website=U.S. Department of Defense}}</ref> He has also visited the battlefields of Syria multiple times to help organize the coalition of Arab and Kurdish fighters that has succeeded in defeating ISIS in its former strongholds.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/world/middleeast/syria-raqqa-tabqa.html |work=New York Times |title=In a Desperate Syrian City, a Test of Trump’s Policies|accessdate=December 22, 2018 |date=July 1, 2017 |first=Michael R. |last=Gordon}}</ref> Diplomatically, under President Trump, he has led talks with Russia and Jordan to establish a ceasefire zone in southwest Syria,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/08/us-russia-ceasefire-syria-trump-cooperation-sanctions.html |accessdate=December 23, 2018 |date=August 9, 2017 |first=Laura |last=Rozen |title=US touts success of Syria cease-fire negotiated with Russia |publisher=[[Al-Monitor]]}}</ref> and spearheaded an initiative with Secretary Tillerson to restore ties between Saudi Arabia and Iraq after nearly three decades of dormant relations.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/10/counter-iran-us-promote-iraq-saudi-arabia-ties-tillerson.html |publisher=Al-Monitor |accessdate=December 23, 2018 |title=To counter Iranian sway, US promotes Iraqi-Saudi ties|date=October 20, 2017 |first=Laura |last=Rozen}}</ref>


McGurk spent much of the summer and fall of 2018 shuttling between Iraq and Syria with a focus on finalizing plans to defeat ISIS in its last strongholds of eastern Syria and establishing an Iraqi government that would continue to welcome an American and Coalition military presence. For the latter assignment, McGurk faced off against Iran's IRGC spymaster Qasim Soliamani and was the target of Iranian-backed protests and assassination threats by Iranian-backed militias.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the-us-and-iran-are-competing-to-shape-iraqs-new-government-both-are-failing/2018/09/24/ee0b9798-bd0b-11e8-8243-f3ae9c99658a_story.html | work= Washington Post | accessdate = December 27, 2018|date=September 25, 2018|title= The U.S. and Iran are competing to shape Iraq’s new government. Both are failing.|first=Tamer|last= El-Ghobashy}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |publisher= Kurdistan 24| url = http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/192aa665-88fd-49ac-85d6-01f2f9e4afd3 |first= Baxtiyar |last=Goran|title=Iraqis protest against 'US meddling' in government formation |access-date = December 27, 2018}}</ref> Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on September 1, 2018 that McGurk was "doing a great job" in Baghdad while undertaking this difficult and dangerous assignment.<ref>{{cite tweet | user=SecPompeo| number =1035916472244162560 | date =September 1, 2018| author = Mike Pompeo| title =Just spoke with @brett_mcgurk who’s on the ground in #Baghdad representing me and @POTUS. Doing a great job. Forming a strong Iraqi government on national basis is essential to the enduring defeat of #ISIS. }}</ref> The new Iraqi government that formed on October 3, 2018, with McGurk's active facilitation, has been characterized as the most competent and Western-friendly since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-09/adel-abdul-mahdi-iraq-s-promising-prime-minister-designate | accessdate = December 27, 2018 |date= October 9, 2018| title=Iraq’s Promising New Leadership | work= Bloomberg News}}</ref>
McGurk spent much of the summer and fall of 2018 shuttling between Iraq and Syria with a focus on finalizing plans to defeat ISIS in its last strongholds of eastern Syria and establishing an Iraqi government that would continue to welcome an American and Coalition military presence. For the latter assignment, McGurk faced off against Iran's IRGC spymaster Qasim Soliamani and was the target of Iranian-backed protests and assassination threats by Iranian-backed militias.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the-us-and-iran-are-competing-to-shape-iraqs-new-government-both-are-failing/2018/09/24/ee0b9798-bd0b-11e8-8243-f3ae9c99658a_story.html | work= Washington Post | accessdate = December 27, 2018|date=September 25, 2018|title= The U.S. and Iran are competing to shape Iraq’s new government. Both are failing.|first=Tamer|last= El-Ghobashy}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |publisher= Kurdistan 24| url = http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/192aa665-88fd-49ac-85d6-01f2f9e4afd3 |first= Baxtiyar |last=Goran|title=Iraqis protest against 'US meddling' in government formation |access-date = December 27, 2018}}</ref> Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on September 1, 2018 that McGurk was "doing a great job" in Baghdad while undertaking this difficult and dangerous assignment.<ref>{{cite tweet | user=SecPompeo| number =1035916472244162560 | date =September 1, 2018| author = Mike Pompeo| title =Just spoke with @brett_mcgurk who’s on the ground in #Baghdad representing me and @POTUS. Doing a great job. Forming a strong Iraqi government on national basis is essential to the enduring defeat of #ISIS. }}</ref> The new Iraqi government that formed on October 3, 2018, with McGurk's active facilitation, has been characterized as the most competent and Western-friendly since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-09/adel-abdul-mahdi-iraq-s-promising-prime-minister-designate | accessdate = December 27, 2018 |date= October 9, 2018| title=Iraq’s Promising New Leadership | work= Bloomberg News}}</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/secupp/status/1076701434073268224</ref>


==Secret talks with Iran==
==Secret talks with Iran==
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==Awards==
==Awards==
McGurk was awarded the [[Distinguished Honor Award]] by Secretary of State [[Condoleezza Rice]] in January 2009 and the [[Secretary's Distinguished Service Award|Distinguished Service Award]] by Secretary of State John Kerry in November 2016. These were the highest awards each Secretary could bestow in McGurk's capacity as a White House official under the Bush administration and a State Department official under the Obama administration. He has also received the [[Superior Honor Award]] from the [[United States Department of State|U.S. Department of State]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.columbia.edu/magazine/162137/brett-mcgurk-99 |title=Brett McGurk '99 |work=Columbia Law School Magazine |date= |accessdate=December 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222112743/http://www.law.columbia.edu/magazine/162137/brett-mcgurk-99 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |dead-url=yes |df=mdy-all }}</ref> and the Outstanding Service and Joint Service Commendation Award from the [[United States National Security Council|U.S. National Security Council]] while serving as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://brettmcgurk.tumblr.com/ |title=About Brett McGurk |accessdate=June 5, 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130423141528/http://brettmcgurk.tumblr.com/ |archivedate=April 23, 2013}}</ref>
McGurk was awarded the [[Distinguished Honor Award]] by Secretary of State [[Condoleezza Rice]] in January 2009 and the [[Secretary's Distinguished Service Award|Distinguished Service Award]] by Secretary of State John Kerry in November 2016. These were the highest awards each Secretary could bestow in McGurk's capacity as a White House official under the Bush administration and a State Department official under the Obama administration. He has also received the [[Superior Honor Award]] from the [[United States Department of State|U.S. Department of State]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.columbia.edu/magazine/162137/brett-mcgurk-99 |title=Brett McGurk '99 |work=Columbia Law School Magazine |date= |accessdate=December 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222112743/http://www.law.columbia.edu/magazine/162137/brett-mcgurk-99 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |dead-url=yes |df=mdy-all }}</ref> and the Outstanding Service and Joint Service Commendation Award from the [[United States National Security Council|U.S. National Security Council]] while serving as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://brettmcgurk.tumblr.com/ |title=About Brett McGurk |accessdate=June 5, 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130423141528/http://brettmcgurk.tumblr.com/ |archivedate=April 23, 2013}}</ref>

==See Also==
* [[David Satterfield]]
* [[Jim Jeffrey]]
* [[Joel Rayburn]]
* [[Michael Mulroy]]


==Notes==
==Notes==

Revision as of 14:17, 21 April 2019

Brett McGurk
Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
In office
October 23, 2015 – December 31, 2018
PresidentBarack Obama
Donald Trump
Preceded byJohn Allen
Succeeded byJim Jeffrey
Personal details
Born (1973-04-20) April 20, 1973 (age 51)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
SpouseGina Chon
Children1 daughter
EducationUniversity of Connecticut (BA)
Columbia University (JD)

Brett H. McGurk (born April 20, 1973) is the Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished Lecturer at

President Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria, McGurk announced his resignation from his post effective December 31, 2018.[2]

McGurk also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran, at the

William H. Rehnquist
during the Court's 2001 October Term.

Early life and education

McGurk was born to Barry McGurk, an English professor, and Carol Ann Capobianco, an art teacher, in

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 20, 1973.[4][5] His family later moved to West Hartford, Connecticut, where he graduated from Conard High School in 1991. McGurk received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Connecticut Honors Program in 1996,[6] and his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 1999. While at Columbia, he was a Senior Editor of the Columbia Law Review
, a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and won the prize for best written brief in Columbia Law School's Moot Court Honors Competition.

After graduation, McGurk served three consecutive clerkships at progressively higher levels of the

Adjunct Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.[7]

Early career

In January 2004, McGurk returned to public service as a Legal Advisor to both the

United States Ambassador to Iraq.[10]

McGurk left government service in the fall of 2009 and served as a Resident Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics, hosting a study group on "Highest Level (and Highest Stakes) Deliberations".[11] He also served as an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has also been a frequent commentator on several news outlets.[12] He was called back into public service twice, first in the summer of 2010 after a deadlock over formation of a new Iraqi government, and later in the summer of 2011, following a deadlock in negotiations with the Government of Iraq to extend the Security Agreement that had been successfully concluded in 2008.

In August 2013, he was appointed

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department.[13]

In November 2013,

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). He is credited with being one of the first U.S. officials to warn about the rising threat of ISIL in Iraq and Syria.[16]

Leading the fight against ISIL

On June 9, 2014, McGurk was in Erbil, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, when ISIL overran the city of Mosul and approached Baghdad. He later flew to Baghdad and helped oversee the evacuation of 1,500 U.S. employees from the U.S. Embassy, while working with President Barack Obama and the National Security Council to develop the U.S. diplomatic and military response to the ISIL threat.[17] McGurk would ultimately play a leading role in facilitating the establishment of a new Government of Iraq, led by Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi, and removing Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki, who had served as Prime Minister over the past eight years.[18]

On September 12, 2014, Secretary John Kerry announced McGurk's appointment as deputy senior envoy with the rank of ambassador to General John Allen, who that day was named to the newly created position of Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL.[19] On October 23, 2015, Secretary Kerry announced McGurk's appointment as Ambassador and Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL.[20] Three days later, Ambassador McGurk met in the Oval Office with President Barack Obama and Allen to discuss the strategy for building a global alliance to defeat ISIL.[21] On December 3, 2014, in Brussels, Belgium, a formal alliance of 62 nations was formed to support Iraq and help the new government under Prime Minister Abadi fight ISIL along five military and diplomatic lines of effort.[22]

In his role as Special Presidential Envoy, McGurk has worked to organize a global coalition of nations as well as coalitions on the ground in Iraq and Syria to help eject ISIL from its strongholds. He was intimately involved, for example, in negotiating agreements between Arabs and Kurds to prepare for the liberation of Mosul.[23] He also helped lead negotiations with Turkey to open Incirlik airbase for counter-ISIL missions, and prepare the historic defense of Kobani in Syria by negotiating with Turkey to permit the Kurdish Peshmerga to enter the besieged city through Turkish territory.[24] McGurk has since visited the battlefields of Kobani where he met officials from the Kurdish Democratic Union Part (PYD) and its People's Protection Units (YPG),[25] as well as the front lines in Mosul to meet with Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish Pershmerga prior to an offensive to secure the eastern side of the city.[26]

He has also helped rally the global coalition for military and financial contributions to support major counter-ISIL operations in Iraq and Syria, with emphasis on post-conflict stabilization and returning the displaced to their homes.[27] In August 2017, McGurk stated that the Trump administration had "dramatically accelerated" the U.S.–led campaign against ISIL, citing estimates that almost one-third of the territory taken from ISIL "has been won in the last six months." McGurk favorably cited "steps President Trump has taken, including delegating decision–making authority from the White House to commanders in the field."[28]

McGurk during the MSC 2017

During the Trump administration, he worked with Secretaries Mattis and Tillerson to develop the accelerated campaign against ISIS, which led to the liberation of Raqqa in October 2017.[29] He has also visited the battlefields of Syria multiple times to help organize the coalition of Arab and Kurdish fighters that has succeeded in defeating ISIS in its former strongholds.[30] Diplomatically, under President Trump, he has led talks with Russia and Jordan to establish a ceasefire zone in southwest Syria,[31] and spearheaded an initiative with Secretary Tillerson to restore ties between Saudi Arabia and Iraq after nearly three decades of dormant relations.[32]

McGurk spent much of the summer and fall of 2018 shuttling between Iraq and Syria with a focus on finalizing plans to defeat ISIS in its last strongholds of eastern Syria and establishing an Iraqi government that would continue to welcome an American and Coalition military presence. For the latter assignment, McGurk faced off against Iran's IRGC spymaster Qasim Soliamani and was the target of Iranian-backed protests and assassination threats by Iranian-backed militias.[33][34] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on September 1, 2018 that McGurk was "doing a great job" in Baghdad while undertaking this difficult and dangerous assignment.[35] The new Iraqi government that formed on October 3, 2018, with McGurk's active facilitation, has been characterized as the most competent and Western-friendly since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.[36][37]

Secret talks with Iran

From October 2014 to January 2016, McGurk was lead negotiator in intensive, secret negotiations with Iran that led to an exchange of prisoners and the return of four Americans, including Jason Rezain, Amir Hekmati, and Saeed Abedini.[38]This secret talks were reportedly the first of their kind between an American negotiator and the hard-line elements of the Iranian regime, including its intelligence services.[39]

Ambassadorial nomination

On March 26, 2012, McGurk was nominated to become the next

Wall Street Journal. Critics claim that the extramarital affair cast doubt on his ability to lead and manage the embassy, while supporters argue that it was at most a momentary lapse in judgment and that McGurk and Chon were a married couple when the series of emails from five years earlier leaked.[44][45]

Chon was later accused of sharing articles with McGurk before publication, and was forced to resign from the newspaper. McGurk and Chon married in 2012.[46][4]

On June 18, 2012, McGurk submitted a letter to President Obama and withdrew himself from further consideration. "While we regret to see Brett withdraw his candidacy," Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman, said in a statement later that day, "there is no doubt that he will be called on again to serve the country."

Robert S. Beecroft
.

Resignation from anti-ISIL post

On January 19, 2017, President-Elect Donald Trump's press secretary

President Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria, McGurk announced his resignation effective December 31, 2018.[2] McGurk had been slated to leave the post in mid-February 2019.[1] In response, Trump wrote that he did not know McGurk and questioned if McGurk was a "grandstander".[50][51][a]

McGurk criticized Trump's Syria withdrawal order in a

Washington Post opinion piece on January 18, saying Trump's decision was made "without deliberation, consultation with allies or Congress, assessment of risk, or appreciation of facts." He endorsed the view that America's adversaries will take advantage of the power vacuum created by a premature pullout from Syria, writing: "...the Islamic State and other extremist groups will fill the void opened by our departure, regenerating their capacity to threaten our friends in Europe — as they did throughout 2016 — and ultimately our own homeland".[53][54][55]

Later career

On January 2, 2019, Stanford University announced that McGurk had accepted a two-year appointment as the Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute.[56] In the announcement, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, now the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, stated: “Brett McGurk is the consummate professional diplomat. He has served on the front lines across three administrations, and handled some of the most difficult assignments for me and President Bush in Iraq during the surge." McGurk also holds a post at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., as a non-Resident Senior Fellow.[57] Carnegie President and former Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns stated announced Brett's affiliation with Carnegie, stating: "For more than a decade, and across administrations of both parties, Brett has led some of the most difficult and important U.S. diplomatic endeavors in the Middle East with extraordinary skill and tireless commitment."

Awards

McGurk was awarded the Distinguished Honor Award by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in January 2009 and the Distinguished Service Award by Secretary of State John Kerry in November 2016. These were the highest awards each Secretary could bestow in McGurk's capacity as a White House official under the Bush administration and a State Department official under the Obama administration. He has also received the Superior Honor Award from the U.S. Department of State,[58] and the Outstanding Service and Joint Service Commendation Award from the U.S. National Security Council while serving as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush.[59]

See Also

Notes

  1. ^ McGurk was succeeded by US Special Representative for Syria Engagement James Jeffrey on January 4, 2019.[52]

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External links

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Special Presidential Envoy for the
Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

2015–2018 		Succeeded by
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