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Booker Meets with Ambassador Samantha Power, Nominee to Serve as USAID Administrator February 1, 2021, 5:16 pm | in
Booker Meets with Ambassador Samantha Power, Nominee to Serve as USAID Administrator WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, met with Ambassador Samantha Power, President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as USAID Administrator. Following their meeting, Senator Booker issued the following statement: “I had the opportunity to meet virtually with Ambassador Samantha Power, who has been nominated to serve as USAID Administrator. We discussed the complex security challenges facing the world today including climate change, the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region and instability in the Horn of Africa, Libya, and the Middle East. We discussed how the Biden Administration can work together with Congress to reassert U.S. credibility ....
by James F. Smith January 15, 2021 President-elect Joe Biden has chosen two Harvard faculty members with deep diplomatic experience to fill senior government positions, signaling his intention to emphasize diplomacy and soft power in rebuilding U.S. influence on the world stage. Wendy R. Sherman, professor of the practice of public leadership at Harvard Kennedy School and director of the School’s Center for Public Leadership, has been nominated to serve as deputy secretary of state. Samantha Power, the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at the Kennedy School and the William D. Zabel 61 Professor of the Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School, has been nominated to be the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. ....
Samantha Power, nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to head the U.S. Agency for International Development, brings human rights and development experience to the role if confirmed.
“As a journalist, activist, and diplomat, I’ve seen the world-changing impact of @USAID,” Power offered in a tweet. “At this critical moment, I feel immensely fortunate to have the chance to serve again, working with the incredible USAID team to confront COVID-19, climate change, humanitarian crises, & more.”
As a journalist, activist, and diplomat, I’ve seen the world-changing impact of @USAID. ....
); Green hue to Joe Biden s team grows as Irish-American Samantha Power picked to lead aid agency Power served as UN Ambassador in Barack Obama’s administration. By Rónán Duffy Wednesday 13 Jan 2021, 12:30 PM Jan 13th 2021, 12:30 PM 42,254 Views 46 Comments Dublin-born Power has visited Ireland on several occasions in recent years. Image: PA Images Image: PA Images IRISH-AMERICAN FORMER US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power has been nominated by Joe Biden to lead the country’s foreign aid agency. Power is a former journalist who was appointed to the US National Security Council under President Barack Obama before serving as UN ambassador from 2013 to 2017. ....