#014/97 January 27, 1997
BIOGRAPHY: SECRETARY OF STATE
MADELEINE KORBEL ALBRIGHT
(Sworn in as 64th Secretary of
State on Jan. 23) Following is the State Department biography of
Secretary of State Madeleine Korbel Albright:
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Biography
January 1997
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Secretary of State
Madeleine Korbel Albright was sworn in as the 64th
Secretary of State on January 23, 1997. Prior to her appointment,
Secretary Albright served as the United States Permanent Representative
to the United Nations (presenting her credentials at the UN on February
6, 1993) and as a member of President Clinton's Cabinet and National
Security Council.
Secretary Albright formerly was the President of the
Center for National Policy. The Center is a non-profit research
organization formed in 1981 by representatives from government,
industry, labor and education. Its mandate is to promote the study and
discussion of domestic and international issues.
As a Research Professor of International Affairs and
Director of Women in Foreign Service Programs at Georgetown
University's School of Foreign Service, she taught undergraduate and
graduate courses in international affairs, U.S. foreign policy, Russian
foreign policy, and Central and Eastern European politics, and was
responsible for developing and implementing programs designed to
enhance women's professional opportunities in international affairs.
From 1981 to 1982, Secretary Albright was awarded a
fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at
the Smithsonian Institution following an international competition in
which she wrote about the role of the press in political changes in
Poland in the early 1980s.
She also served as a Senior Fellow in Soviet and
Eastern European Affairs at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies, conducting research in developments and trends in the Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe.
From 1978-1981, Secretary Albright was a staff
member on the National Security Council, as well as a White House staff
member, where she was responsible for foreign policy legislation. From
1976 to 1978, she served as Chief Legislative Assistant to Senator
Edmund S. Muskie.
Awarded a B.A. from Wellesley College with honors in
Political Science, Secretary Albright studied at the School of Advanced
International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, received a
Certificate from the Russian Institute at Columbia University, and her
Masters and Doctorate from Columbia University's Department of Public
Law and Government. Secretary Albright has three daughters.
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