Kristin Carlucci Weed Author

Frank C. Carlucci III was an American politician and diplomat. A graduate of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Carlucci served as ambassador to Portugal in the tumultuous 1970s and held roles in a number of public offices, including at the Office of Economic Opportunity and the Central Intelligence Agency. As President Ronald Reagan's secretary of state from 1987 to 1989, Carlucci helped define America's Cold War policy. In private enterprise, he was chairman of the Carlyle Group from 1992 to 2003. He completed his work on Get Me Carlucci before his death in 2018.

Kristin Carlucci Weed grew up in McLean, Virginia as the daughter of former Secretary of Defense Frank C. Carlucci. Weed attended Duke University and Johns Hopkins University, focusing on international affairs and public policy. After working in policy research in the US and in Europe, she returned to the leafy suburbs of Washington, DC, where she settled with her US Air Force husband in 2020. When she is not driving one of her three children to their activities, she can be found on the tennis court or on a globetrotting adventure. Get Me Carlucci is her first book.