Frank Lowenstein | |
Office: | United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace |
President: | Barack Obama |
Term Start: | June 27, 2014 |
Term End: | January 20, 2017 |
Successor: | Position abolished |
President1: | Barack Obama |
Term Start1: | June 24, 2013 |
Term End1: | July 29, 2013 |
Successor1: | Martin Indyk |
Birth Name: | Frank Graham Lowenstein |
Birth Date: | 16 August 1967 |
Birth Place: | New York City, New York, U.S. |
Relatives: | Allard K. Lowenstein (father) Jennifer Lyman (mother) |
Party: | Democratic |
Spouse: | Peyton M. West (m. 2004) |
Children: | 2 |
Education: | Yale University (BA) Boston College (JD) |
Frank Graham Lowenstein[1] (born August 16, 1967) is an American lawyer, diplomat and former government official.
He was born on August 16, 1967, in New York City, New York.[2] He is the son of former New York congressman Allard K. Lowenstein and Jennifer Lyman. He graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990 and from Boston College Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1997.
From 1997 to 2003 he practiced law in Boston, Massachusetts.
From 1990 to 1994 he served as a foreign policy and defense legislative assistant in the office of Senator John Kerry. From 2003 to 2009 he served in numerous positions relating to foreign policy and national security while working on the Kerry Edwards Presidential Campaign and for Senator John Kerry. From 2009 to 2011 he served as staff director and chief counsel of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
From 2011 to 2013 he served as principal of the Podesta Group.[3] [4]
From 2013 to 2014 he served as a senior advisor to the United States Secretary of State.[5] He served as the United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace from June 2014 until January 2017.[6]
From December 2017, he has been serving an Executive Director at APCO Worldwide.[7]
He married Peyton McLean West in April 2004. They have two children.[8]