Per its mandates, the IAWG is comprised of senior-level officials from the Departments of State, Justice, Defense, and Education and the U.S. Agency for International Development as well as comparable representatives from other interested government departments and agencies. Representatives of the National Security Council and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget participate in the IAWG at their discretion. The Department of State’s Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs chairs the group. The group is broken down into three working levels. First, the Executive Committee is comprised of the agencies and departments named in the Executive Order and the legislation. Second, the Principals group constitutes the entire working group as articulated in the Executive Order. The Principals group is supported by a working-level “Sherpa” group comprised of interested agency representatives who have been designated by the Principals or volunteered to work on specific issues and projects undertaken by the IAWG. All of these groups are served by a staff housed within the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the Department of State. IAWG products and projects also benefit from the cooperation of many federal organizations that are not formal members of the IAWG.
Member Organizations
*denotes statutorily mandated members
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Commerce
- Department of Defense *
- Department of Education *
- Department of Energy
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of the Interior
- Department of Justice *
- Department of Labor
- Department of State, (Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs – Chair) *
- Department of Transportation
- Department of the Treasury
- Broadcasting Board of Governors
- Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Federal Trade Commission
- Japan-United States Friendship Commission
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Science Foundation
- National Security Council
- Office of Management and Budget
- Office of Personnel Management
- Peace Corps
- United States Agency for International Development *
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Non-Member Contributing Federal Organizations
- Civil Air Patrol
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Federal Communications Commission
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- General Services Administration
- Inter-American Foundation
- Library of Congress
- Marine Mammal Commission
- National Archives and Records Administration
- National Endowment for Democracy
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Social Security Administration
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Trade and Development Agency
- United States Institute of Peace