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Anonymous ID: 3fc985 March 11, 2022, 10:22 a.m. No.15840331   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0377

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Thomas-Greenfield

Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Linda Thomas-Greenfield (born November 22,[citation needed] 1952) is an American diplomat who is the United States ambassador to the United Nations under President Joe Biden. She served as the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 2013 to 2017.Thomas-Greenfield then worked in the private sector as a senior vice president at Albright Stonebridge Groupin Washington, D.C. President Biden nominated her to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and she was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 23, 2021. She took office after presenting her credentials on February 25, 2021.

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Thomas-Greenfield was born in Baker, Louisiana.[3] She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana State University in 1974, and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1975.[4][5]

 

Career

Thomas-Greenfield taught political science at Bucknell University, before joining the Foreign Service in 1982.[6]

 

She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (2004–2006), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (2006–2008), Ambassador to Liberia (2008–2012), and Director General of the Foreign Service and concurrently as the Director of Human Resources (2012–2013).[7][8] In addition, Thomas-Greenfield held foreign postings in Switzerland (at the United States Mission to the United Nations), Pakistan, Kenya, The Gambia, Nigeria, and Jamaica.[9]

 

From 2013 to 2017, she served as the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the United States Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs.[10][11]

 

In 2017 she was terminated by the Trump administration as part of what was a "purge of senior State Department officials and career professionals over nearly four years", according to the Los Angeles Times.[12]

 

Thomas-Greenfield is a non-resident fellow at Georgetown University, having been the distinguished resident fellow in African Studies from fall 2017 to spring 2019.[13]

 

In November 2020, Thomas-Greenfield was named a volunteer member of President-elect Joe Biden's agency review team to support transition efforts related to the United States Department of State.[14][12] As of November 2020, Thomas-Greenfield was on leave from a senior vice president position at Albright Stonebridge Group.[15]

 

On November 24 2020, Biden announced his plans to nominate her as the next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and to include her in his cabinet and National Security Council.[16][17] She appeared before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on January 27, 2021.[18]

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