He was Vice President of the Program on Global Security & Sustainability at the MacArthur Foundation from 2007 to 2014.

(1977) from the Nitze School of Advanced International studies at the Johns Hopkins University.

From 2005 to 2007 Lowenkron was Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.

[3] From 1979 until 2005, Lowenkron was Adjunct Lecturer in American Foreign Policy at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, where he taught courses on American Foreign Policy.

[2] Al Kamen of The Washington Post'' calls Lowenkron a "longtime foreign policy guru...who has worked at the Pentagon, the CIA and the State Department's policy planning shop.