Rashad Hussain
Rashad Hussain | |
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Rashad Hussain | |
| 6th United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom | |
| In office January 24, 2022 – January 20, 2025 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Sam Brownback |
| United States Special Envoy for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications | |
| In office February 18, 2015 – January 20, 2017 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | position established |
| United States Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation | |
| In office February 13, 2010 – February 18, 2015 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Sada Cumber |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 19, 1979 Wyoming, U.S. |
| Education | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA) Harvard University (MPA, MA) Yale University (JD) |
Rashad Hussain is an American attorney, diplomat, and professor, who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, Associate White House Counsel, and as U.S. Special Envoy of President Barack Obama to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). He was also U.S. Special Envoy for strategic counterterrorism communications and served on the United States National Security Council and in the Department of Justice as a trial attorney and a criminal and national security prosecutor.