David J. Kramer

David J. Kramer


Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
In office March 21, 2008 – January 20, 2009
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Barry Lowenkron
Succeeded by	Michael H. Posner
Personal details
Education	Tufts University, Harvard University

David J. Kramer was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from 2008 to 2009. He was President of Freedom House from October 2010 to November 2014. He is currently the Senior Director for Human Rights and Human Freedoms at the McCain Institute.

David J. Kramer was educated at Tufts University, receiving his B.A. in Soviet Studies and Political Science, and then at Harvard University, receiving his M.A. in Soviet Studies.

After university, Kramer was a Lecturer in Russian Studies at Clark University and a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University. During the collapse of the Soviet Union, he was an analyst for The Christian Science Monitor Network. He later moved to Washington, D.C. and became a Senior Fellow at the Project for the New American Century, Associate Director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Assistant Director of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.