Career
Schulte served as the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations Office at Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and other international organizations in Vienna. Assuming his post on July 13, 2005, Schulte was charged with advancing the President's agenda in countering proliferation, terrorism, organized crime, and corruption, while promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Appointed by President George West. Bush in January 2003, Schulte served as Executive Secretary of the National Security Council (National Security Council) through March 2005.
He was accountable to Condoleezza Rice for overseeing the National Security Council staff, the national security decision-making process, and the White House Situation Room.
Schulte served as Senior Director for Southeast European Affairs on the National Security Council staff from 2000 to 2002, overseeing United States. diplomacy and military deployments in Bosnia and Kosovo and collaboration with the United Nations and European Union. He helped guide and coordinate interagency efforts to bring democracy to Serbia and prevent civil war in Macedonia.
From 1999 to 2000, Schulte served as Principal Director for Requirements, Plans and Counterproliferation Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at The Pentagon. His duties included review of United States. war plans and policy oversight of efforts to protect United States. and allied forces in the face of nuclear, biological, and chemical threats.
As Special Assistant to the President for Implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords on the National Security Council staff from 1998 to 1999, Schulte coordinated United States. diplomacy and support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization air campaign that stopped ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
He co-chaired the National Security Council Executive Committee that planned for the subsequent United Nations and North Atlantic Treaty Organization missions in Kosovo. From 1992 to 1998, Schulte was assigned to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization International Staff in Belgium. As Director of the Bosnia Task Force, he helped prepare North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s first "out of area" operations and manage its relations with the United Nations, Russia, and other Partner countries.
He simultaneously served as Director for Nuclear Planning, assisting in the restructuring of North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s nuclear weapons posture after the Cold War.
Schulte worked for the Secretary of Defense from 1985 to 1992 as Director for Strategic Forces Policy and Assistant for Theater Nuclear Forces Policy.