Berkley Center

James Steinberg is dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a university professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law at Syracuse University. From 2009 to July 2011 he was the principal deputy secretary of state under secretary Hillary Clinton. Steinberg was dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin from 2005 to 2008, following a 2001 to 2005 term as vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He served as deputy national security advisor to President Bill Clinton from 1996 to 2000. Prior to that he held several positions at the State Department and served as an aide to senator Edward Kennedy. He is the co-author of Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power (2008). Steinberg received a B.A. from Harvard and a J.D. from Yale Law School.