Career
Dinger has been a Senior Inspector in the State Department" General’ s Office of the Inspector General since 2013. He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research 2006-2012. He led some 300 staff and managed a $60 million budget to supply Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice with expert analysis of every country and every issue in the world.
While in that position, he established State"s first Office of Cyber Affairs, chaired its Cyber Policy Group, and pioneered the foreign policy of cyberspace.
Dinger was Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department 2003–2005. He developed significant portions of United States. counterterrorism policy.
He advocated in interagency debates State Department positions on counterterrorism strategies, plans, and operations. He led the United States. Government"s interagency, rapid-reaction terrorism response team, ensuring that it was trained and poised to respond to a terrorist incident anywhere in the world.
He successfully persuaded Mongolian Airlines to lease its first new airplane from Boeing, smoothed Coca-Cola"s opening of its first plant in Mongolia, and convinced Mongolia to send troops to Iraq, marking the first time Mongolia"s military operated outside its borders since Genghis Khan.
When he directed the State Department" General’ s Office of Press Relations 1997-1998, Dinger was in charge of all major State Department press events, including daily press briefings. He helped develop all public diplomacy strategies of that era and advocated United States. foreign policy positions to United States. and foreign media in hundreds of print, radio, and television interviews. He prepared Secretaries Christopher and Albright for appearances before the press
Dinger is a native of the small town of Riceville, Iowa.
