Stephen Rademaker
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Lobbying
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and former Bush Administration
George W. Bush administration
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government official.
Education
Rademaker attended the University of VirginiaUniversity of Virginia
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where he received a B.A.
Bachelor of Arts
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(1981) in Foreign Affairs
International relations
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, a J.D.
Juris Doctor
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(1984), and an M.A.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
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in Foreign Affairs
International relations
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(1985). He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Student Council, and the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society
Jefferson Literary and Debating Society
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during his time at the university.
Previous positions
Rademarker served as a law clerkLaw clerk
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to James L. Buckley
James L. Buckley
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, and from 1984 to 1986, he was an associate at the Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
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law firm
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of Covington & Burling
Covington & Burling
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.
From 1987 to 1989, Stephen served as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. From 1986 to 1987, he served as Counsel to the Vice Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission. In 1986 he was a law clerk for the Honorable James L. Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
From 1989 to 1992, Rademaker held a joint appointment as Associate Counsel to the President in the Office of Counsel to the President and as Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council. From 1992 to 1993, Stephen served as General Counsel of the Peace Corps
Peace Corps
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. For most of the following decade, he held positions on the staff of the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives, including Minority Chief Counsel (1993-1995), Chief Counsel (1995-2001), and Deputy Staff Director and Chief Counsel (2001-2002). He returned briefly to the Peace Corps in 2000-2001 as the Bush-Cheney Transition's Director of Transition for the Peace Corps.
In 2002, he was Chief Counsel to the Select Committee on Homeland Security of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he had lead responsibility for drafting the legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security. Later that year he was confirmed by the United States Senate
United States Senate
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as an Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation
Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation
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, and from then until 2006 he headed at various times three bureaus of the Department of State, including the Bureau of Arms Control and the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation.
After leaving government, Rademaker joined Barbour, Griffith and Rogers in January 2007. He came to the firm from the staff of Senate majority Leader Bill Frist
Bill Frist
William Harrison "Bill" Frist, Sr. is an American physician, businessman, and politician. He began his career as an heir and major stockholder to the for-profit hospital chain of Hospital Corporation of America. Frist later served two terms as a Republican United States Senator representing...
, where he served as Policy Director for National Security Affairs and Senior Counsel. In February 2011, Rademaker left Barbour, Griffith and Rogers and joined the Podesta Group
Podesta Group
The Podesta Group is a lobbying and public affairs firm based in Washington, D.C.. It was founded in 1988 by brothers John Podesta and Tony Podesta and has previously been known as Podesta Associates, podesta.com and PodestaMattoon...
.
Controversies
A report written by Siddharth VaradarajanSiddharth Varadarajan
Siddharth Varadarajan is the Editor of The Hindu, one of India's leading English language newspapers. He has reported on the NATO war against Yugoslavia, the destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq and the crisis in Kashmir...
and published in The Hindu quoted Rademaker as acknowledging that the United States had coerced India into voting against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency
International Atomic Energy Agency
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. This generated a controversy with the Cambridge-based Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran is a group of academics, students and professionals of Iranian and non-Iranian backgrounds formed to oppose sanctions on Iran by the United States.-History:...
(CASMII) calling for an "international investigation into U.S. coercion of IAEA members.http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/1753/print
Though Mr. Rademaker has never disputed the accuracy of the remarks attributed to him, the U.S. Ambassador in Delhi, David C. Mulford, issued a press release stating that "Mr. Rademaker is not a U.S. official and the statements attributed to him are inaccurate." The Hindu, however, denied this, claiming that the quotes attributed to Mr.Rademaker were "wholly accurate".http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/17/stories/2007021709121400.htm