Robert B. Charles
| Robert B. Charles | |
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| Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs | |
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In office October 6, 2003 – March 15, 2005 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Rand Beers |
| Succeeded by | Anne W. Patterson |
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| Born | Robert B. Charles |
| Political party | Republican |
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Dartmouth College (A.B.) University of Oxford (M.A.) Columbia University (J.D.) |
| Profession | Diplomat, Lawyer, Consultant |
| Website | The Charles Group |
Robert B. Charles is the former assistant secretary of state at the U.S. State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. He served under Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Robert (Bobby) Charles received a J.D. from Columbia Law School in New York, M.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from Oxford University in England, and A.B. from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He began his career clerking on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with Judge Robert R. Beezer (1987–88).
After clerking on the Ninth Circuit, he specialized in criminal justice, intellectual property, and antitrust law as a litigator in New York and Washington, at Weil Gotshal & Manges and Kramer Levin between 1988 and 1994. From 1992 through early 1993, he stepped into the public sector and served on the George H.W. Bush White House team, as a Deputy Associate Director, Office of Domestic Policy. Ten years earlier, he had served as a temporary appointee in the first-term Reagan White House for periods of 1981, '82 and '83. From 1995 through late 1999, he served as Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice Subcommittee under Chairman/ Speaker J. Dennis Hastert. During that period, he wore three professional hats, also serving as the senior staffer to The U.S. Speaker’s Task Force on a Drug-Free America and U.S. House Bi-Partisan Drug Policy Group. All counter-narcotics and counter-narco-terrorism legislation was marked-up by or originated in that subcommittee, task force, and policy group. From 1998 through 2000, he taught courses on Government Oversight and Cyberlaw at Harvard University's Extension School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he earned the Petra T. Shattuck Award for Excellence in Teaching.
From 1998 through 2009, Charles served as a Naval Intelligence Officer (USNR) at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) and in the Pentagon, with the Chief of Naval Intelligence - Intelligence Plot (CNO-IP). After the September 11 attacks, in which American Airlines flight 77 hit the Pentagon and destroyed the CNO-IP, killing seven close colleagues, he volunteered for active duty and assisted in rebuilding the Chief of Naval Operations Intelligence Plot.
From mid-2003 to mid-2005, Charles served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), under Secretary of State Colin Powell. His missions included building the security programs for and training the Iraqi and Afghan Police, coordinating and overseeing the US law enforcement training and support programs in Kosovo, Colombia and nearly fifty other countries. He also oversaw global civilian counter-narcotics programs, coordinated daily with US Departments of Defense and Justice, and restructured the financial management and operations of the two-billion-dollar bureau, imposing strict new accountability rules.
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