Wendy Sherman

Wendy R. Sherman (2011)

Wendy Ruth Sherman (* 7. June 1949 in Baltimore , Maryland ) is an American diplomat , among other things, between 1993 and 1996 Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs , 2011-2015 Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs , and in this Was also acting deputy foreign minister between 2014 and 2015 .

Life

After attending Smith College in 1969, Wendy Ruth Sherman began an undergraduate degree at Boston University , which she completed in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) cum laude. A subsequent post-graduate studies in professional social work at the University of Maryland closed it in 1976 with a Master of Arts (MA Social Work, and then worked as a social worker. On 12 May 1993 she was in place of Janet G. Mullins to Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs and as such was Head of the Bureau of Legislative Affairs until March 29, 1996. Her successor in this role was Barbara Mills Larkin, and on August 1, 1997, she was promoted to the rank of United States United States Under Secretary of State counselor ( counselor of the United States Department of State ) in the US Department of State (State Department) and has held this function of 6 August 1997 to 20 January 2001. at the same time she was at this time special adviser to US President Bill Clinton and Political Coordinator for North Korea .

Subsequently, she was CEO of Oxfam America , an international organization for development aid and disaster relief . She was also a member of the Defense Policy Committee of the US Department of Defense , a group designed to provide the Secretary of Defense with independent, knowledgeable advice and opinions on defense policy issues. In 2008 she was appointed a member of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation and Terrorism by the US Congress . In addition, she was Vice-Chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group , a consulting firm of former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright , which, together with her business partner and former US security advisor Sandy Berger, offers policy advice to companies and governments. She was also a member of the investment committee of Albright Capital Management , an investment advisory firm affiliated with the Albright Stonebridge Group with a focus on emerging markets .

21 September 2011 returned Wendy R. Sherman is back foreign ministry after the successor of William Joseph Burns to the United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs had been appointed. She thus took the third highest position in the State Department after the Secretary of State and the Deputy Secretary of State and was as such head of the Department of Political Affairs until October 2, 2015. Her successor in this role was Thomas A. Shannon . In this use, they acted after the resignation of William Joseph Burns on 3 November 2014 and took office Tony flashing on January 9, 2015 at the same time as Acting Vice-Außenminsterin (Acting Deputy Secretary of State) and took so after Foreign Minister John Kerry , the second highest position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After her retirement from government service, she was Senior Adviser (Senior Counselor) of Albright Stonebridge Group , and Senior Scholar ( Senior Fellow ) at the 1973 founded Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs .

Web links

Commons : Wendy Sherman  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Wendy R. Sherman on the US State Department Office of the Historian home page
• Biography on the U.S. Department of State home page (archive version)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Assistant Secretaries of State for Legislative Affairs
2. ^ Counselors
3. ^ Under Secretaries of State for Political Affairs