Samantha Power

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Power on her visit to Liberia during the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic

Samantha Power (born September 21, 1970 in London ) is an Irish-American journalist , author and scientist . She was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from August 2, 2013 to January 20, 2017 .

life and career

Samantha Power is the daughter of Irish parents, the doctor Vera Delaney and the dentist Jim Power. She grew up in Dublin before moving to Pittsburgh with her mother and her new partner in September 1979 . She later moved from Pittsburgh to Atlanta , Georgia with the two of them and their brother Stephen .

She attended Lakeside High School in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was a member of the cross-country and basketball teams.

She then received her BA from Yale University , where she was a member of the Aurelian Honor Society , in 1992 , and her degree from Harvard Law School. In 1993, at the age of 23, she became an American citizen.

She served as Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University . In 2003 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide . She also received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for this book.

In 2004, she was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World for that year. In the fall of 2007, she began writing a regular column for Time.

On June 5, 2013, Power was nominated by US President Barack Obama to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. After her approval by the US Senate , she succeeded Susan E. Rice on August 2, 2013 and held this office until January 20, 2017.

On June 8, 2016, Power was awarded the Henry A. Kissinger Prize in Berlin for its commitment to transatlantic relations .

Power has been married to Harvard professor Cass Sunstein since 2008 .

Barack Obama, Samantha Power, Tom Donilon, and Susan Rice

Bibliography (excerpts)

Web links

Commons : Samantha Power  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Jennifer Ryan: Samantha Power: 'Being the only woman in the UN made me a feminist' , irishtimes.com, November 13, 2017, accessed December 24, 2019.
  2. Power, Samantha ,: Education of an idealist . London, ISBN 978-0-00-827490-0 .
  3. Harvard Law School: Samantha Power | Harvard Law School. Retrieved April 20, 2020 (English).
  4. ^ Time 100: Samantha Power. April 19, 2003, accessed April 20, 2020 .
  5. Sebastian Fischer: New US security team: Two strong women for Obama. In: Spiegel Online. June 5, 2013, accessed June 6, 2013 .
  6. Samantha Powers UN tenure
  7. Samantha Power receives the Kissinger Prize in Wannsee. In: Berliner Morgenpost. June 9, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2016 .
  8. ^ Sunstein and Power, Harvard Power Couple, Tie the Knot. In: The Harvard Crimson. July 7, 2008, accessed December 15, 2016 .
  9. Stephan Detjen / Deutschlandfunk September 16, 2013: book review