FORA.tv Speaker - Marc Grossman

Marc Grossman is vice chairman of The Cohen Group, the strategic business consulting firm founded and headed by former Secretary of Defense and U.S. Senator William Cohen. He is also a current board member of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Prior to joining, he had been a career foreign service officer since 1976.

Ambassador Grossman was under secretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. State Department from March 2001 to February 2005. Additionally, he served as director general of the Foreign Service and director of human resources, assistant secretary of state for European Affairs, and as U.S. Ambassador to Turkey. From 1984 to 1986, Ambassador Grossman was the deputy director of the Private Office of Lord Carrington, then Secretary General of NATO.

He received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a master's degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science.