Hugh Dugan
Hugh Dugan is an American academic and diplomat who served as the acting Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs from October 4, 2019 to March 1, 2020. Education. Dugan earned a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Master of Arts from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was also a State Department Fellow at the International Olympic Academy. Career. During Dugan's career in the United States Foreign Service, he served as an advisor  to 11 United States Ambassadors to the United Nations. After the September 11 attacks, he was recruited to serve as a staffer on the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations’s Subcommittee on International Operations and Terrorism. Dugan also served in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, the American Consulate General in Bermuda, and the Embassy of the United States, Mexico City. Dugan has worked as a visiting scholar at Seton Hall University. From January 28, 2019 to April 27, 2020, Dugan served as the Principal Deputy Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs. He concurrently served as acting Special  Envoy from October 2019 to March 2020. In February 2020, Trump appointed Dugan to serve as a member of the United States National Security Council. Dugan is the founder of the Truce Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Princeton, New Jersey that advocates for fostering diplomatic relationships through sport, modeled after the Olympic Truce.