Earl Anthony Wayne

Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs

On June 1, 2000, Earl Anthony Wayne was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs (EB). Issues under Mr. Wayne's purview include international finance, development, and debt policy, post-conflict economic assistance, economic sanctions, international energy policy, combating the financing of terrrosim, trade and investment policy, international telecommunications and information issues, international transportation and aviation policies, and commercial advocacy overseas.

Mr. Wayne served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs (EUR) from 1997 until spring 2000 and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe from 1996 to 1997. Mr. Wayne's portfolio included relations with the European Union, the OECD, the G-8, regional economic issues, Southeast Europe Stability Pact, global issues, Nazi assets and restitution, budget and policy planning, administration, public affairs/diplomacy, and from 1996 to 1998, U.S.-Canadian relations.

Mr. Wayne was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to the European Union from July 1993 until July 1996. He played a key role in negotiating the New Transatlantic Agenda between the U.S. and the European Union. From June 1991 to June 1993, Mr. Wayne was Director for Western European Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC), where he oversaw relations with the countries of western Europe and the European Communities.

From 1989 to 1991, Mr. Wayne was Director for Regional Affairs for the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Counter-Terrorism, formulating and implementing U.S. counter-terrorism policy cooperation. From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Wayne took a leave of absence from the Foreign Service to be the National Security Correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor.

From 1984 to 1987, Mr. Wayne served as First Secretary at the embassy in Paris. Mr. Wayne was Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Haig and Shultz between 1981 and 1983. He served earlier as a member of the State Department's Executive Secretariat, as a political officer in Embassy Rabat, Morocco, and as an analyst of Chinese domestic and foreign policies in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He joined the Foreign Service in 1975.

Mr. Wayne's foreign language is French. He has graduate degrees from Harvard University (MPA), Princeton University (MA), and Stanford University (MA). Mr. Wayne 's undergraduate degree (BA) is from the University of California, Berkeley.