Names: Susan Rice staffs up
The U.S. mission to the United Nations has made several hires. Among those now working for permanent representative Susan Rice: Brooke Anderson, chief of staff, who was previously the national security spokeswoman for the Obama-Biden transition and a counterproliferation expert with the Nuclear Threat Initiative Mark Kornblau, communications director, who served as a former Hill ...
The U.S. mission to the United Nations has made several hires. Among those now working for permanent representative Susan Rice:
Brooke Anderson, chief of staff, who was previously the national security spokeswoman for the Obama-Biden transition and a counterproliferation expert with the Nuclear Threat InitiativeMark Kornblau, communications director, who served as a former Hill aide and Kerry campaign veteranKathleen McGlynn, deputy chief of staff, who worked as the deputy chief of staff to Vice President Biden and as chief of staff to the Edwards 2008 presidential campaignThree political appointees with long expertise in U.N.-related areas:
Elizabeth Cousens, principal policy advisor, former vice president of the International Peace Academy. Her research has focused on peace agreements and civil warMike Pan, policy advisor, a former special advisor to the U.N.'s chief prosecutor in Sierra Leone and a national security specialist at the Center for American ProgressSalman Ahmed, policy advisor, a Princeton professor and a former senior political officer in the U.N. office of the undersecretary-general for peacekeepingSupporting Rice in Washington:
Erica Barks-Ruggles, deputy to the permanent rep. and director of the Washington office, a former NSC director for Africa and deputy assistant secretary of state for human rightsWarren Bass, Rice's speechwriter and senior policy advisor, a former Washington Post editor and 9/11 commission stafferJennifer Simon, policy advisor, a former SFRC stafferMeridith Webster, deputy chief of staffStill to be officially named:
The deputy permanent rep. to the U.N., currently held as is traditional by a career Foreign Service officer, Amb. Alejandro Wolff, whose term has been extended to the summer (a position distinct from deputy to the permanent rep., Barks-Ruggles.)The assistant deputy permanent representative for special political affairs, currently filled by Foreign Service officer Amb. Rosemary DiCarlo, who is expected to be succeeded by a political appointeeThe ambassador for economic and social affairs, currently unfilledThe ambassador for management affairs, also currently not filled
The U.S. mission to the United Nations has made several hires. Among those now working for permanent representative Susan Rice:
- Brooke Anderson, chief of staff, who was previously the national security spokeswoman for the Obama-Biden transition and a counterproliferation expert with the Nuclear Threat Initiative
- Mark Kornblau, communications director, who served as a former Hill aide and Kerry campaign veteran
- Kathleen McGlynn, deputy chief of staff, who worked as the deputy chief of staff to Vice President Biden and as chief of staff to the Edwards 2008 presidential campaign
Three political appointees with long expertise in U.N.-related areas:
- Elizabeth Cousens, principal policy advisor, former vice president of the International Peace Academy. Her research has focused on peace agreements and civil war
- Mike Pan, policy advisor, a former special advisor to the U.N.’s chief prosecutor in Sierra Leone and a national security specialist at the Center for American Progress
- Salman Ahmed, policy advisor, a Princeton professor and a former senior political officer in the U.N. office of the undersecretary-general for peacekeeping
Supporting Rice in Washington:
- Erica Barks-Ruggles, deputy to the permanent rep. and director of the Washington office, a former NSC director for Africa and deputy assistant secretary of state for human rights
- Warren Bass, Rice’s speechwriter and senior policy advisor, a former Washington Post editor and 9/11 commission staffer
- Jennifer Simon, policy advisor, a former SFRC staffer
- Meridith Webster, deputy chief of staff
Still to be officially named:
- The deputy permanent rep. to the U.N., currently held as is traditional by a career Foreign Service officer, Amb. Alejandro Wolff, whose term has been extended to the summer (a position distinct from deputy to the permanent rep., Barks-Ruggles.)
- The assistant deputy permanent representative for special political affairs, currently filled by Foreign Service officer Amb. Rosemary DiCarlo, who is expected to be succeeded by a political appointee
- The ambassador for economic and social affairs, currently unfilled
- The ambassador for management affairs, also currently not filled
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