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Stanley L. Brown is the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. He previously served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs from May 2022 to July 2024. From February 2020 to May 2022, he served as PM’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Programs and Operations, and from July 2013 to January 2020, Mr. Brown served as the Director of the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the PM Bureau.
Before joining the Department of State, he served 27 years in the U.S. Air Force as a pilot primarily in special operations units but also in assignments at the Department of State to include Senior Military Advisor, Director of the Office of International Security Operations in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, and Special Operations Chief in the Office of Counterterrorism. He has a B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an M.S. from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He was the recipient of the Meritorious Executive Presidential Rank Award in 2021.
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