Rashad Hussain

Rashad Hussain
United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom
Incumbent
Assumed office January 24, 2022
President	Joe Biden
Preceded by	Sam Brownback
United States Special Envoy for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications
In office February 18, 2015 – January 20, 2017
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	position established
Succeeded by	position abolished
United States Special Envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
In office February 13, 2010 – February 18, 2015
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Sada Cumber
Succeeded by	position abolished
Personal details
Born	(1979-09-19) September 19, 1979 (age 44) Wyoming, U.S.
Education	UNC-Chapel Hill (BA) Harvard University (MPA, MA) Yale University (JD)

Rashad Hussain is an American attorney, diplomat, and professor,^[1] who currently serves as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. He previously served as associate White House counsel,^[2] as U.S. Special Envoy of President Barack Obama to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC),^[3][4] and the U.S. Special Envoy for strategic counterterrorism communications.^[5] Hussain has also served on the United States National Security Council and in the Department of Justice as a trial attorney and a criminal and national security prosecutor.