Richard Grenell
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American politician (born 1966)
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5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,294x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,204x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,628x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,217x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,497x
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Key facts
- President
- Donald Trump
- Preceded by
- Position established
- Succeeded by
- Matt Floca
- Deputy
- Andrew P. Hallman , Kash Patel , Neil Wiley
- Born
- Richard Allen Grenell , ( 1966-09-18 ) September 18, 1966 (age 59) , Jenison, Michigan , U.S.
- Party
- Republican
- Domestic partner
- Matt Lashey
- Education
- Evangel University ( BA ), Harvard University ( MPA )
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Encyclopedic overview
Richard Allen Grenell (born September 18, 1966) is an American diplomat, public official, and former public relations consultant who has served as the special presidential envoy for special missions since 2025. Grenell additionally served as the acting director of the Kennedy Center from February 2025 to March 2026.
A member of the Republican Party, he served as acting director of national intelligence (DNI) in 2020 under President Donald Trump, for which he is often cited as the first openly gay acting Cabinet-level official in U.S. history. He previously served as the United States ambassador to Germany from 2018 to 2020, and as the special presidential envoy for Serbia and Kosovo peace negotiations from 2019 to 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Richard Grenell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.