Brian Hook

[1] He served as U.S. Special Representative for Iran and Senior Policy Advisor to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from September 2018 to August 2020.

[3] During the George W. Bush administration, Hook served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs; Senior Advisor to the U.S.

[citation needed] In 2013, he co-founded the John Hay Initiative,[5] an anti-isolationist group intended to inform political leaders about foreign policy.

[8] Hook spent months traveling between the US and Europe in an effort to negotiate an enhanced Iran nuclear agreement with European leaders.

[2] Hook traveled to North Korea in May 2018 with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for a meeting with Kim Jong Un and to free three American hostages.

After leaving the Trump administration, Hook joined Cerberus Capital Management as vice chairman of the alternative investment firm's international arm.

[16] Hook was appointed by President Trump to the board of trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center at the Smithsonian Institution.

[18] On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that Hook was fired from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

[21][22] Hook planned the Ministerial to Promote Peace and Security in the Middle East, a conference held in Warsaw, Poland, in February 2019.

Hook meets with IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi during his official visit at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria on July 1, 2020.
U.S. Special Representative Brian Hook stands next to freed U.S. prisoner Xiyue Wang , who had been held in Iran for 3 years.