Steven Lett (right) receiving traditional gifts from Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades at an official dinner on the occasion of Cospas-Sarsat meetings in Limassol, Cyprus, 14 June 2013
Head of Cospas-Sarsat Secretariat
In office 1 June 2011 – Present
Personal details
Born
1958 United States
Alma mater
Duke University, National Defense University
Occupation
Diplomat
Steven Lett (born 1958) is a former American diplomat and current chief executive (Head of Secretariat) of the International Cospas-Sarsat Programme in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[1]
Prior to joining Cospas-Sarsat, Lett was Deputy United States Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, immediately under Ambassadors Philip L. Verveer (2009–2011), David A. Gross (2001–2009) and Vonya B. McCann (1994–1999) at the U.S. Department of State.[2] He directed the Office of Technology and Security Policy and was responsible for strategic international policy-making and diplomatic outreach for issues that included telecommunications and Internet security, the international satellite market, and emerging technologies. He was the U.S. representative at the 150-nation International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO, known as INTELSAT prior to privatization of INTELSAT's commercial activities in 2001), and the 34-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD's) Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy.[3][4] He headed U.S. delegations in the 95-nation International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO, known as Inmarsat prior to privatization of Inmarsat's commercial activities in 1999). Lett also has participated in committees and conferences of the United Nations, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Maritime Organization, and the International Telecommunication Union where topics included the use of technology to advance aviation and maritime safety and security, improved access to information and communications technologies for the world's poor, and greater efficiency in the international management of radio spectrum and satellite orbits. He has testified about satellite matters before the U.S. Senate.[5][6]
Prior to joining the State Department in 1989, Lett was a member of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's International Conference Staff and Common Carrier Bureau. There he worked on rule-making proceedings related to the international telecommunications market, and headed delegations to resolve radio-interference concerns impacting satellite operations of the United States and other countries.
Lett completed bachelor's degree programs at Duke University (Durham, NC, USA) in Electrical Engineering, and in Public Policy, and holds a Master of Science degree with distinction from the National Defense University's Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy (Washington, DC, USA) where he studied, among other things, disaster management.[7][8]
^New York Times article
^Department of State "DipNote" Official Blog
^ITSO Announcement of Lett's chairmanship of intergovernmental committee[permanent dead link]
^OECD Summary of the Proceedings of the Roundtable on Economics of Personal Data and Privacy, 1 December 2010
^Text of Testimony before U.S. Senate Commerce subcommittee on July 30, 1997, archived from the original on December 18, 2012
^Request for Comments; United States Privatization of Intergovernmental Satellite Organizations
^Duke University Policy New Alumni Note
^Industrial College of the Armed Forces (NDU) Manufacturing Industry Study Paper, 2005, archived from the original on April 8, 2013
StevenLett (born 1958) is a former American diplomat and current chief executive (Head of Secretariat) of the International Cospas-Sarsat Programme in...
Look up Lett or lett in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lett may refer to: Lett, archaic word for a Latvian Lettish, another name for the Latvian language...
Divorce. In 2017, Letts starred in three critically acclaimed films: Azazel Jacobs' The Lovers, Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird, and Steven Spielberg's The Post...
Steven Weinberg (/ˈwaɪnbɜːrɡ/; May 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021) was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his contributions with...
the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society. The current editor-in-chief is Steven Gao (Chinese University of Hong Kong). The journal is abstracted and indexed...
Wayback Machine McGroarty, John Steven. Los Angeles from the Mountains to the Sea, American Historical Society, 1921 Arthur Letts residence, also called Holmby...
314–317. Bibcode:1986PhRvL..57..314C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.314. PMID 10034028. "Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy". United States Department of...
published by Springer Science+Business Media. The editors-in-chief are Steven W. Singer and Paula Meleady. According to the Journal Citation Reports,...
Playwrights Horizons. She also participated in readings for her husband Tracy Letts' 2015–2016 season play Mary Page Marlowe and was in talks to perform in...
1966), Ambassador to the United Kingdom, chairman of the WPP Group StevenLett (B.S.E. 1980), diplomat; head of the International Cospas-Sarsat Programme...
394–397. Bibcode:1961PhRvL...7..394C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.7.394. Yennie, D. R., Steven C. Frautschi, and H. Suura (1961). "The infrared divergence...
as Terrance Dicks' brief tenure as producer before the arrival of Barry Letts, and a brief spell by David Maloney in 1978 when Graham Williams was incapacitated...
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.193201. PMC 3721737. PMID 23003037. Li, Hebin; Bristow, Alan D.; Siemens, Mark E.; Moody, Galan; Cundiff, Steven T. (22 January...
"Unity of All Elementary Forces". Phys. Rev. Lett. 32: 438–441. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.32.438. Weinberg, Steven (1974). "Gauge and Global Symmetries at High...
(18 July 2022). "Steven Spielberg Directs Marcus Mumford's Video for 'Cannibal'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 28 July 2022. "Hear Letts' Surging, Marcus...
victory over the Three Lions". The Guardian. 4 June 2022. "Szoboszlai Dominik lett a válogatott csapatkapitánya!". Nemzeti Sport (in Hungarian). 17 November...
Background". Astrophys. J. Lett. 951 (1): L8. arXiv:2306.16213. Bibcode:2023ApJ...951L...8A. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/acdac6. "Steven L. Detweiler, Inspire"...
Expansion by Double Stevens RearrangementKeisha K. Ellis-Holder, Brian P. Peppers, Andrei Yu. Kovalevsky, and Steven T. Diver Org. Lett.; 2006; 8(12) pp...
of He3 in Liquid He4 at 0K". Phys. Rev. Lett. 15 (20): 773. Bibcode:1965PhRvL..15..773E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.15.773. Pricaupenko, L; Triener, J. (16...
bombs. 109–110 "Home" Paul Wilmshurst Michael Crompton Amanda Lane, Crispin Letts, Mojisola Adebayo, Sindi Harrison, Andre Jacobs, Ben Kruger 4 February 2010 (2010-02-04)...
Global Information