Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs

United States
Assistant Secretary of State for
Economic and Business Affairs
United States; Assistant Secretary of State for; Economic and Business Affairs
	Seal of the United States Department of State
	Flag of an Assistant Secretary of State
	Incumbent; Vacant; since June 20, 2025
Reports to	Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment
Nominator	President of the United States
Inaugural holder	Willard Long Thorp
Formation	1944
Website	Official website

Last updated August 15, 2025

The Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs is an office in the United States Department of State responsible for managing the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. It was known as the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from December 1944 to September 15, 1972.^[1]

The purpose of the bureau is to "[promote] a strong American economy by leveling the playing field for American companies doing business in global markets, attracting foreign investors to create jobs in America, and deploying economic tools to deny financing to terrorists, human rights abusers, and corrupt officials."^[2]

Assistant Secretaries of State for Economic and Business Affairs

#	Name	Assumed office	Left office	President(s) served under
1	Willard Thorp	1946	1952	Harry S. Truman
2	Harold F. Linder	1952	1953	Harry S. Truman
3	Samuel C. Waugh	1953	1955	Dwight D. Eisenhower
4	Thorsten V. Kalijarvi	1957	1957
5	Thomas C. Mann	1957	1960
6	Edwin M. Martin	1960	1962	Dwight D. Eisenhower/John F. Kennedy
7	Gove Griffith Johnson Jr.	1962	1965	John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson
8	Anthony M. Solomon	1965	1969	Lyndon B. Johnson
9	Philip H. Trezise	1969	1971	Richard Nixon
10	Willis Coburn Armstrong	1972	1974	Richard Nixon
11	Thomas O. Enders	1974	1975	Gerald Ford
12	Joseph A. Greenwald	1976	1976	Gerald Ford
13	Julius Katz	1976	1979	Gerald Ford/Jimmy Carter
14	Deane R. Hinton	1979	1981	Jimmy Carter
15	Robert Hormats	1981	1982	Ronald Reagan
16	Richard T. McCormack	1983	1985
17	Douglas W. McMinn	1985	1987
18	Eugene J. McAllister	1988	1992	Ronald Reagan/George H. W. Bush
19	Daniel Tarullo	1993	1996	Bill Clinton
20	Alan Larson	1996	1999	Bill Clinton
21	Earl Anthony Wayne	June 1, 2000	June 3, 2006	George W. Bush
22	Daniel S. Sullivan	June 6, 2006	January 1, 2009	George W. Bush
23	Jose W. Fernandez	December 2, 2009	October 2, 2013	Barack Obama
24	Charles Rivkin	February 13, 2014	January 20, 2017	Barack Obama
-	Patricia M. Haslach (acting)	January 20, 2017	September 1, 2017	Donald Trump
25	Manisha Singh	November 22, 2017	January 20, 2021	Donald Trump
-	Peter D. Haas (acting)^[3]	January 20, 2021	August 27, 2021	Joe Biden
-	Matt Murray (Senior Bureau Official)^[4]	August 28, 2021	January 24, 2022
26	Ramin Toloui	January 24, 2022	June 28, 2024
-	Amy Holman (Acting)	June 28, 2024	June 20, 2025^[5]	Joe Biden Donald Trump

References

↑ "Assistant Secretaries of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs". Department History. Office of the Historian . Retrieved November 25, 2013.
↑ "Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved October 24, 2021.
↑ "Peter Haas - Official Biography". US State Department.
↑ "Matt Murray - Official Biography". US State Department.
↑ https://www.state.gov/biographies/amy-holman ^{[ bare URL ]}

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[1] "Assistant Secretaries of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs". Department History. Office of the Historian . Retrieved November 25, 2013.

[2] "Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved October 24, 2021.

[3] "Peter Haas - Official Biography". US State Department.

[4] "Matt Murray - Official Biography". US State Department.

[5] ttps://www.state.gov/biographies/amy-holman ^{[ bare URL ]}

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United States Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs
Seal of the United States Department of State
Flag of an Assistant Secretary of State
Incumbent Vacant since June 20, 2025
Reports to	Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment
Nominator	President of the United States
Inaugural holder	Willard Long Thorp
Formation	1944
Website	Official website