In an article posted on the Foreign Policy website on March 15, reporter Josh Rogin wrote that Bathsheba Crocker ’87 has moved to the State Department's Office of Policy Planning to begin her new role as principal deputy director, the number two position in the Policy Planning Office. Since 2009, Crocker was chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg. A former fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and an expert on post-conflict reconstruction, Crocker previously served as deputy chief of staff to former President Bill Clinton when he served as the UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, and on the National Security Council staff during the Clinton administration.