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Deputy Secretary Landau calls for cooperation as he outlines management, USAID alignment and modernization questions
Summary
Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau used the State Department—oreign Affairs Day keynote to appeal for mutual respect with career foreign service staff, raise questions about organizational ossification and endorse closer alignment of USAID within State.
Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau urged greater cooperation between political leadership and career foreign service personnel, and said the department must ask "serious questions" about how embassies and the service operate in the 21st century.
In a keynote address at the 60th annual Foreign Affairs Day at the Harry S. Truman Building, Deputy Secretary Landau said he came "home" to the State Department and said he wanted to "extend a respectful hand" to career officers amid tensions over internal reforms. "I am your friend," Landau said, adding that he hoped to "tone down and cool some of the tempers."
Landau placed part of the conversation about change in an organizational context, saying the department had become "ossified" and "sclerotic" and that the proliferation of boxes on the organization chart complicated clearances and coordination. "I think…
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