| Post: | United States Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability |
| Insignia: | U.S. Department of State official seal.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 120px |
| Insigniacaption: | Seal of the United States Department of State |
| Incumbent: | Paul Dean (Acting)[1] |
| Incumbentsince: | January 20, 2025 |
| Reports To: | The Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs |
| Nominator: | The President of the United States |
| Formation: | 2000 |
| Inaugural: | Paula A. DeSutter |
| Website: | Official Website |
| Flag: | Flag of the United States Assistant Secretary of State.svg |
| Flagcaption: | Flag of an Assistant Secretary of State |
The Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability is the head of the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance. The position was created on December 12, 1999, by Secretary Albright as the Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance. The Bureau became fully operational on February 1, 2000, and was first known as the Verification and Compliance Bureau. Within the department, the Assistant Secretary is responsible for all matters relating to the supervision of verification and compliance with international arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements. The Bureau was given its current name during the Obama administration.
President Joe Biden nominated lawyer and arms control expert Mallory Stewart for the position on June 2, 2021; she was confirmed by the Senate on March 29, 2022, and was sworn in on April 18, 2022.[2]
The Assistant Secretary manages and advises the Secretary of State and the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security on the appropriate uses of the Key Verification Assets Fund, which supports the Department of State's preservation of critical verification assets and promotes the development of new technologies to enhance verification of existing and future arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament treaties or agreements.[3]
The Assistant Secretary is also responsible for the President's Annual Report to Congress on Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control Agreements, for verifiability assessments for all international arms control and nonproliferation agreements, and for specialized compliance reports required by U.S. Senate Resolutions of ratification, such as the condition 10(c) report on the Chemical Weapons Convention.[4]
| Name | Assumed office | Left office | President(s) served under | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paula A. DeSutter | August 14, 2002 | January 16, 2009 | George W. Bush | |
| 2 | Rose Gottemoeller | April 6, 2009 | March 7, 2014 | Barack Obama | |
| 3 | Frank A. Rose | December 18, 2014 | January 20, 2017 | Barack Obama | |
| 4 | Yleem D.S. Poblete | April 30, 2018 | June 7, 2019 | Donald Trump | |
| - | Bruce I. Turner (Senior Bureau Official)[5] [6] | January 20, 2021 | September 2021 | Joe Biden | |
| - | Alexandra Bell (Senior Bureau Official)[7] | September 2021 | March 13, 2022 | ||
| - | Paul Dean (Senior Bureau Official)[8] | March 13, 2022 | April 18, 2022 | ||
| 5 | Mallory Stewart | April 18, 2022 | January 20, 2025 | ||
| - | Paul Dean (Acting) | January 20, 2025 | Incumbent | Donald Trump |