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Seth Cropsey was the Director of the International Broadcasting Board from November 2002 until December 2004. For Cropsey, the appointment was a return to the Cohen Building where he worked from 1982-1984 as the Director of Policy at the Voice of America. From 1984-1990, Cropsey served as Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy. He was then Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations. In the 1990s, Cropsey spent four years in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany as a professor and departmental chairman at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Previously, he was director of the Asian Studies Center with The Heritage Foundation. Most recently, Cropsey has been director of government affairs at Greenberg Traurig, a law and lobbying firm. Before joining Greenberg Traurig, Cropsey was a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Cropsey has written for the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, and the American Enterprise. He is chairman and founder of the Adobe Foundation, a humanitarian organization that operates an orphanage in Romania. He received a B.A. from St. John's College in 1972, and a M.A. from Boston College in 1976.