Ambassador Dereck J. Hogan is a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service and currently serves as the executive secretary of the U.S. Department of State. In this assistant secretary-ranked position, he leads the Executive Secretariat bureau that provides policy and operational support to the Secretary of State, coordinates the internal work of the department, manages the department’s formal communications with the White House and other national security agencies, and plays a leadership role in the department’s preparation for and response to crises.  

Ambassador Hogan recently served as acting assistant secretary and principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Prior to that, he was the U.S. Ambassador in the Republic of Moldova and the chargé d’affaires and deputy chief of mission in U.S. Embassy Baku, Azerbaijan. Ambassador Hogan’s other senior positions in the U.S. State Department include deputy executive secretary of the department, director of the Central European Affairs and Nordic and Baltic Affairs offices and senior advisor to the President’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. He previously served as the U.S. Department of State representative on two civilian-military Provincial Reconstruction Teams in southern and eastern Afghanistan. His other overseas assignments include Russia, Belarus, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. In Washington, Ambassador Hogan served as special assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell and a watch officer in the State Department’s Operations Center.

Ambassador Hogan has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s degree in public affairs from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He speaks Russian, Spanish, and Romanian.