Samantha Power
Writer, Author
1970 –
Who is Samantha Power?
Samantha Power is an Irish-born American academic, author and diplomat who currently serves as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
Power began her career by covering the Yugoslav Wars as a journalist. From 1998 to 2002 Power served as the Founding Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where she later served as the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy. She was a senior adviser to Senator Barack Obama until March 2008, when she resigned from his presidential campaign after apologizing for referring to then Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as "a monster".
Power joined the Obama State Department transition team in late November 2008, and was named Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights on the National Security Council — responsible for running the Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights — positions that she held from January 2009 to March 2013. In April 2012, Obama chose her to chair a newly formed Atrocities Prevention Board.
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- Born
- Sep 21, 1970
Castleknock - Also known as
- Пауэр, Саманта
- 萨曼莎·鲍尔
- Spouses
- Cass Sunstein
(2008/07/04 - )
- Cass Sunstein
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Irish American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- Harvard Law School
( - 1999) - Harvard University
- Yale College
- Employment
- Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government
- Foreign Policy Fellow to Senator Obama, United States Senate
- Time Inc.
- Economist Group
- The New York Times Company
- U.S.News & World Report, L.P.
- The New Republic
- Lived in
- United States of America
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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