Patrick Francis Kennedy (born June 22, 1949) is a former career Foreign Service Officer who served as the U.S. State Department's Under Secretary of State for Management. He was Director of the Office of Management Policy, Rightsizing and Innovation. He has been Deputy Director for Management at the cabinet level Office of the Director of National Intelligence; he returned to the Department of State on May 7, 2007. Kennedy was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform and previously served as Chief of Staff for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He was the Assistant Secretary of State for Administration for the Clinton Administration from 1993 to 2001. Diplomatic career Kennedy holds a B.S.F.S. degree from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University where he was a member of the Philodemic Society. After graduating, Kennedy joined the United States Foreign Service. Kennedy then served as a Personnel Officer at the Bureau of African Affairs, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Management, Supervisory General Services Officer at the Embassy of the United States in Paris, Executive Director and Deputy Executive Secretary of the United States Department of State, Administrate Counselor at the Embassy Of The United States in Cairo, Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, Acting Under Secretary of State for Management, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security, and U.S. Representative to the United Nations for Management and Reform. Kennedy then served as Chief of Staff of the Coalition Provisional Authority and Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq. In the intelligence sector, Kennedy served as Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Management. Kennedy then returned to the State Department as the Under Secretary of State for Management, serving during three presidential administrations. Blackwater investigation In 2007, Patrick F. Kennedy chaired an investigation into the behavior of Blackwater Worldwide, following the Nisour Square shooting. Election of 2008 During the 2008 presidential election, Kennedy ordered that State Department employees in Europe be barred from attending Senator Barack Obama's speech in Berlin on July 24, 2008, to ensure they displayed political neutrality. Kennedy labeled Obama's visit as a partisan political activity. Benghazi affair Kennedy's role in diplomatic security decisions has come under scrutiny from politicians since the terrorist attacks on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi in 2012. Kennedy testified to the House Oversight Committee on October 10, 2012, about the death of