Brian H. Hook

Brian H. Hook
Director of Policy Planning Staff
Assumed office
February 2017
President Donald Trump
Preceded by Jonathan Finer
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
In office
October 3, 2008 – January 20, 2009
President George W. Bush
Preceded by Kristen Silverberg
Succeeded by Esther Brimmer

Brian H. Hook is an American lawyer and government official. As of 2017, he serves as policy chief in the staff of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.[1]

During the George W. Bush administration, Hook served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs; Senior Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Special Assistant to the President for Policy in the White House Chief of Staff’s office; and as Counsel, Office of Legal Policy, at the U.S. Justice Department.

Hook practiced corporate law at Hogan & Hartson in Washington from 1999-2003. He has also worked for Iowa Governor Terry Branstad and U.S. Congressman Jim Leach.

Career

Hook is the founder of Latitude, LLC, an international consulting firm based in Washington, DC. He serves on the advisory board of Beacon Global Strategies.

Hook worked on the 2012 Romney campaign staff as senior advisor on foreign policy. He chaired the foreign policy and national security task forces of the Romney Readiness Project. He was the foreign policy director of Governor Tim Pawlenty's presidential campaign from 2010-2011.

In 2013, he co-founded the John Hay Initiative,[2] an anti-isolationist group intended to inform political leaders about foreign policy.[1]

Hook serves on the board of trustees for St. John's Seminary in Boston and the board of directors for the National Civic Arts Society in Washington, DC.

Education

Hook received a bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of St. Thomas in 1990, a master's degree in philosophy from Boston College, and a law degree from the University of Iowa College of Law.

References

  1. 1 2 Johnson, Eliana; Crowley, Michael (4 June 2017). "The bottleneck in Rex Tillerson’s State Department". POLITICO. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  2. ↑ O'Connor, Patrick (2015-09-27). "John Hay Group Seeks to Shape Candidates’ Foreign-Policy Positions - Washington Wire - WSJ". Blogs.wsj.com. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
Government offices
Preceded by
Kristen Silverberg		 Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
October 3, 2008 – January 20, 2009 		Succeeded by
Esther Brimmer
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