Ambassador Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr. has broad familiarity with current foreign policy and international security issues as well as decision-makers inside Washington and capitals around the world. Mr. Bloomfield has senior experience in foreign policy and national security issues, including defense export regulatory issues under the Arms Export Control Act and the ITAR. He also has extensive experience dealing with senior foreign officials on issues such as military basing and access arrangements involving control and destruction of shoulder-fired missiles and landmines; the 2001 140-nation UN agreement on Small Arms and Light Weapons; and alliance and coalition relationships providing forces to Afghanistan and Iraq. He has published several articles and advised the U.S. military on security issues, including the growing utilization of space by civil and military sectors.
Ambassador Bloomfield is Chairman of the Board of the Henry L. Stimson Center, a non-partisan security think tank in Washington, D.C. He previously was a Presidential Special Envoy, from 2008 – 2009, leading U.S. efforts to protect international aviation from shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles. Prior to joining Akin Gump, Mr. Bloomfield served as the assistant secretary of state for political military affairs from 2001 to 2005. He was also the president’s special representative on the landmine issue and led the U.S. government’s international outreach on critical infrastructure protection, including cybersecurity. From 1993 to 2001 Mr. Bloomfield was a partner in the international business group Armitage Associates L.C.
He formerly has served as deputy assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs (1992-93); deputy assistant to the vice president for national security affairs (1991-02); member, U.S. Delegation to Philippine Bases Negotiations (1990-91); member, U.S. Water Mediation in the Middle East (1989-90); and principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs (1988-89).
Mr. Bloomfield received his A.B. cum laude from Harvard University in 1974 and his M.A. in law and diplomacy in 1980 from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he was the director of The Fletcher Forum.