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Madeleine Korbel Albright
In 1997, Madeleine Korbel Albright was named the 64th Secretary of State of the United States, becoming the first woman to hold that position, and serving as the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government.

Dr. Albright is the founder of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm. She is the first Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and the first Visiting Saltzman Fellow at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.

She is the chairman of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, chair of the Pew Global Attitudes Project, and president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation. She serves on the boards of the New York Stock Exchange, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Aspen Institute.

From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Albright served as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as a member of the President’s Cabinet. In 1995, she led the U.S. delegation to the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.

Dr. Albright was the Director of Women in Foreign Service Programs and a Research Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University during the decade prior to her return to public service. From 1989 to 1992, she was president of the Center for National Policy, a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. As a professor, Dr. Albright wrote extensively on change in communist systems, particularly on the role of the media.

From 1978 to 1981, Dr. Albright was a member of President Carter’s National Security Council and White House staff. From 1976 to 1978, she served as Chief Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie.

Dr. Albright was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and immigrated to America with her family after Communists took control of that country in 1948. She received her BA with honors from Wellesley College, a master’s degree and doctorate from Columbia University’s Department of Public Law and Government, and a certificate from the Russian Institute.

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