Kim R. Holmes (born 1952)[1] is an author and former American diplomat and Assistant Secretary of State.

From 2002 to 2005 he served as the United States Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs;[2] he was also Executive Vice-President of the Heritage Foundation, having served twice as the foundation’s Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies and Director of its Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies between 1992 and 2012.

[4] While at Heritage, he was promoted to senior policy analyst for national security affairs specializing in arms control, NATO, and East-West strategic relations.

[7] Later in 2005, he testified before Congress about human rights issues in Cuba,[8] and U.N. peacekeeping abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

[7] Holmes later served on presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team in 2012.