Overview
Robert B. Charles (born 1960) is an American lawyer and Republican political figure. He was assistant secretary of state at the U.S. State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs from 2003 to 2005. He served under Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Early life and education
Charles grew up in a small town in Maine.
He received a J.D. from Columbia Law School in New York, M.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from Oxford University in England, and A.B. from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
Career
Charles began his career as a law clerk to Judge Robert R. Beezer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1987 to 1988. He worked as a litigator in New York and Washington, at Weil Gotshal & Manges and Kramer Levin between 1988 and 1994. From 1992 through early 1993, he worked in the George H. W. Bush White House as a Deputy Associate Director, Office of Domestic Policy. Ten years earlier, he had served as a temporary appointee in the first-term Reagan White House during 1981–1983.
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