Robert Suettinger | |||||||||
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| National Intelligence Officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council | |||||||||
| In office 1997–1998 | |||||||||
| President | Bill Clinton (1993–2001) | ||||||||
| Vice President | Al Gore (1993–2001) | ||||||||
| Personal details | |||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||
| Alma mater | Lawrence University, Columbia University | ||||||||
| Occupation | Senior Advisor at The Stimson Center | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 蘇葆立 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 苏葆立 | ||||||||
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Robert L. Suettinger is an American international relations scholar currently serving as a senior advisor at The Stimson Center and an advisor to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC).[1][2][3] He was national intelligence officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council (NIC) from 1997 to 1998 during the Clinton administration. While there, he oversaw the preparation of national intelligence estimates for the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. His areas of specialty are the People's Republic of China[4] and the North Korean nuclear weapons program.