Eric P. Schwartz

Eric Paul Schwartz is the former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration.

Eric P. Schwartz was educated at Binghamton University, receiving a B.A. in Political Science; at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, receiving an M.P.A. with a specialization in International Relations; and at the New York University School of Law, receiving a J.D.

After law school, Schwartz worked for Asia Watch, a human rights organization dedicated to monitoring human rights in Asia. In 1989, he became a staff consultant of the United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific. He worked there until 1993, when he moved to the United States National Security Council, serving in a variety of functions, with his seniormost title being Senior Director and Special Assistant to the President for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs. There, he played a role in drafting the Clinton Administration's response to a number of peacekeeping, humanitarian and refugee issues, including U.S. involvement in the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor, the deployment of U.S. forces to train forces in Sierra Leone as part of a group of peacekeepers dispatched to Sierra Leone in 1998, the resettlement of Kurdish refugees in Northern Iraq, resettlement of the Vietnamese boat people, the admission of Haitian refugees and Operation Uphold Democracy, and U.S. relief efforts in Central America and Kosovo. He left the National Security Council in 2001.

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