Esther Brimmer

Esther Brimmer
Esther Brimmer in 2012
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
In office April 2, 2009 – June, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Brian H. Hook
Succeeded by	Bathsheba N. Crocker

Esther Brimmer is an American foreign policy expert and former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. In June 2013, she left her post as Assistant Secretary and returned to academia. As of October 2013, she is the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.

She received a D.Phil. and master's degrees in International Relations from the University of Oxford, UK, and a B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College in Claremont, California, USA.

Brimmer has served in the United States government and in international affairs think tanks. From 1999-2001 she was a Member of the Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State working on the European Union, Western Europe, the United Nations, and multilateral security issues. From 1995-1999 she managed projects as a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. She also served as a Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1993-1995) and as a Legislative Analyst at the Democratic Study Group in the United States House of Representatives (1991-1993). From 1989-1991 she was a management consultant with McKinsey.

From September 2005 on Brimmer was a visiting professor at the College of Europe.