Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy

(a) Establishment There shall be in the Department an Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy who shall be responsible to the Secretary of State for matters pertaining to global public diplomacy, information operations targeting foreign audiences, strategic communications and information, international educational and cultural exchange programs, and such other duties as the Secretary may from time to time designate. (b) Responsibilities In addition to the responsibilities described under subsection (a), the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy shall oversee and coordinate all matters pertaining to global public diplomacy and foreign information operations, including, as appropriate— (1) leading and directing all information and public diplomacy activities targeted at foreign audiences, communicating United States policy to foreign audiences, documenting and exposing the malign actions of foreign adversaries, ensuring global access to free information, and countering foreign censorship; (2) preparing and leading implementation of an annual strategic plan for public diplomacy in collaboration with regional and functional bureaus and overseas posts and in consultation with relevant national security agencies; (3) ensuring public diplomacy programs are assessed using effective and appropriate evaluation methods; (4) overseeing and directing Department personnel in the United States and abroad who conduct or implement public diplomacy policies, programs, and activities; (5) assisting United States-funded media to present the policies of the United States clearly and effectively; (6) submitting statements of United States policy and editorial material to the United States-funded media; (7) allocating and managing the financial and human resources for all public diplomacy functions within the Department of State, including for— (A) the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs; (B) the Bureau of Strategic Communications; and (C) the public diplomacy functions within the regional and functional bureaus; (8) establishing and overseeing a regional public diplomacy team for each region, each of which shall— (A) integrate all public diplomacy programming and operations of the Department; (B) implement such programming and operations in the region of such team; and (C) be responsible for— (i) operationalizing the Department’s public diplomacy strategy in the region of such team; (ii) enabling region-specific execution of such strategy; and (iii) maintaining coherence with a unified United States strategy and overarching global objectives of the Department; (9) serving as Chair of interagency meetings on public diplomacy to align messaging across the Department of Defense, Department of State, Department of Commerce, Department of the Treasury, the intelligence community, and members of the Group of Seven; and (10) performing such other duties as the Secretary may from time to time designate.