Caleb Charles McCarry

Cuba Transition Coordinator
July 2005 to present

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who chairs the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, named Mr. McCarry as Transition Coordinator in July 2005. Caleb McCarry is the senior U.S. official responsible for U.S. government planning to support a transition to democracy in Cuba through the President’s Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba. The Transition Coordinator reports to the Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs on a day-to-day basis and to the Secretary of State on important policy matters. Mr. McCarry previously served on the majority professional staff of the International Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to that, he worked for a bipartisan organization, The Center for Democracy.