United States Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent Lee Satterfield since November 23, 2021
Reports to	The Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
Nominator	The President of the United States
Inaugural holder	Philip Hall Coombs
Formation	1961
Website	eca.state.gov

The Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs is the head of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, a bureau within the United States Department of State. The Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs reports to the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.

Assistant Secretaries of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, 1961—present

Note: the post had been abolished from 1978 to 1999. In 1978 the Bureau was abolished and its functions transferred to the International Communications Agency (subsequently the United States Information Agency) under Reorganization Plan No. 2 (91 Stat. 1637). On October 1, 1999, pursuant to the integration of the U.S. Information Agency into the Department of State this position was revived.

Name	Assumed office	Left office	President(s) served under
Philip Hall Coombs	March 23, 1961	June 4, 1962	John F. Kennedy
Lucius D. Battle	June 5, 1962	August 20, 1964	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
Harry McPherson	August 23, 1964	August 14, 1965	Lyndon B. Johnson
Charles Frankel	September 15, 1965	December 31, 1967
Edward D. Re	February 28, 1968	January 9, 1969
John Richardson Jr.	July 15, 1969	March 7, 1977	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
Joseph D. Duffey	April 8, 1977	March 21, 1978	Jimmy Carter
Alice Stone Ilchman	March 22, 1978	March 31, 1978	Jimmy Carter
Position abolished
William B. Bader	November 18, 1999	January 20, 2001	Bill Clinton
Patricia Harrison	October 2, 2001	July 1, 2005	George W. Bush
Dina Powell	July 11, 2005	June 7, 2007
Goli Ameri	March 19, 2008	January 20, 2009
Ann Stock	June 23, 2010	August 16, 2013	Barack Obama
Evan Ryan	September 26, 2013	January 6, 2017	Barack Obama
Mark Taplin (acting)	January 2017	August 2017	Donald Trump
Jennifer Zimdahl Galt (acting)	November 13, 2017	March 29, 2018
Marie Royce^[1]	March 30, 2018^[2]	January 20, 2021
Matthew Lussenhop (acting)	January 20, 2021	November 22, 2021	Joe Biden
Lee Satterfield	November 23, 2021	present	Joe Biden

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United States Assistant Secretaries of State (and equivalent ranks)

United States Assistant Secretaries of State (and equivalent ranks)
Reporting to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs	African Affairs East Asian and Pacific Affairs European and Eurasian Affairs International Organization Affairs Near Eastern Affairs South and Central Asian Affairs Western Hemisphere Affairs
Reporting to the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment	Economic and Business Affairs Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Energy Resources Chief Economist of the Department
Reporting to the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security	Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance International Security and Nonproliferation Political-Military Affairs
Reporting to the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs	Educational and Cultural Affairs Global Public Affairs
Reporting to the Under Secretary for Management	Administration Consular Affairs Diplomatic Security Chief Information Officer of the Department Chief Medical Officer and Designated Agency Safety and Health Official Comptroller of the Department and Director of Global Financial Services Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Global Talent Director of Budget and Planning Director of Overseas Buildings Operations Director, Foreign Service Institute Director, Office of Foreign Missions, with the rank of Ambassador Director, Office of Management Strategy and Solutions
Reporting to the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights	Conflict and Stabilization Operations Coordinator for Counterterrorism, with rank and status of Ambassador-at-Large Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Population, Refugees, and Migration Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking (Ambassador-at-Large) Global Criminal Justice (Ambassador-at-Large)
Reporting directly to the Secretary	Intelligence and Research Legislative Affairs Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive Secretary of the Department Inspector General Legal Adviser Director, Policy Planning Staff Director, Office of Foreign Assistance Director, Office of Civil Rights and Chief Diversity Officer Chief of Protocol of the United States, with the rank of Ambassador Global Women's Issues (Ambassador-at-Large) Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally (Ambassador-at-Large)

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