Lincoln Bloomfield, Jr.
Ambassador Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr. was the US Special Envoy for Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) Threat Reduction from 2008-2009, and Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs from 2001-2005. Mr. Bloomfield previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1992-93), Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs (1991-92), and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1988-89) among other policy positions in the Defense Department dating to 1981. Mr. Bloomfield is founder and President of Palmer Coates LLC, Senior Advisor at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Operating Advisor at Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P., and Chairman of Bell Pottinger Communications USA LLC. He graduated from Harvard College and received a M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is a founding Board Member of Survivor Corps (formerly Landmine Survivors' Network) and a Senior Advisor at CSIS. He is editor of Global Markets and National Interests: the New Geopolitics of Energy, Capital, and Information (Washington, DC, CSIS Press, 2002).