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Philip Link is the director of the U.S. Department of Education's executive secretariat. His appointment was announced on May 19, 1993.

In his position, Link oversees a staff of 21 who process more than 6,000 letters, regulatory documents, and policy papers addressed to the Secretary each month. Prior to his current appointment, he was deputy director of the executive secretariat.

From 1984 to 1989, Link was a senior policy analyst in the Office of the Under Secretary/Deputy Secretary, and from 1989 to 1992, he was executive administrator of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services.

Link was an honors graduate in government from Harvard College in 1972, and he received a master's degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 1977.

Link is married and has one son.