Howard
C. Wiener
Howard
C. Wiener is a career Foreign Service Officer and member of the Senior Foreign
Service, currently serving as Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary of
State for Management. Since joining the Department of State in 1978 as an administrative
officer, Mr. Wiener has served in U.S. embassies in Bogota, Paris, Moscow, and
Cairo. He has also worked in the State Department Bureau of Personnel and performed
a one-year Congressional Fellowship under the auspices of the American Political
Science Association. Before joining the staff of the Under Secretary for Management,
Mr. Wiener was Deputy Executive Director of the Bureau of European Affairs,
where he was responsible for supporting U.S. embassies and consulates in the
New Independent States (former Soviet Union).
Mr.
Wiener was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1948. He received a Bachelor
of Arts degree (cum laude) from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1970 and a Juris
Doctor degree from the Duke University School of Law in 1973. He worked as an
associate attorney in the Cleveland, Ohio law firm of Squire, Sanders &
Dempsey, and then served as a Judge Advocate (rank of Captain) with the U.S.
Air Force in Washington and Turkey from 1973 to 1978.