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Victoria Nuland
Victoria Jane Nuland (born July 1, 1961) is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2021 to 2024. A former member of the US Foreign Service, she served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2013 to 2017 and the 18th U.S. ambassador to NATO from 2005 to 2008. Between July 2023 and February 2024, Nuland served as acting deputy secretary of state following the retirement of Wendy Sherman.
Nuland held the rank of career ambassador, the highest diplomatic rank in the U.S. Foreign Service. She is the former CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), serving from January 2018 until early 2019, and is also the Brady-Johnson distinguished practitioner in grand strategy at Yale University and a member of the board of the National Endowment for Democracy. She served as a nonresident fellow in the Brookings Institution's foreign policy program and senior counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group. On March 5, 2024, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that Nuland would retire "in the coming weeks".
Nuland was born in 1961 to Sherwin B. Nuland, a surgeon born to Jewish immigrants from Bessarabia, with the last name Nudelman, and a Christian British native mother, Rhona McKhann, née Goulston.[failed verification] She graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1979. She has two younger half-siblings, Amelia and William. She earned a bachelor of arts degree from Brown University in 1983, where she studied Russian literature, political science, and history. She speaks Russian and French, and some Chinese.
Nuland joined the State Department's Foreign Service in 1984. She served in Guangzhou, China, from 1985 to 1986, in the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in 1987, and helped establish the first U.S. embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in 1988, where she served on the Soviet desk until 1990. From 1991 to 1993, she worked on Russian internal politics at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, focusing on Boris Yeltsin and his government.
From 1993 to 1996, during Bill Clinton's presidency, Nuland was chief of staff to deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott before moving on to serve as deputy director for former Soviet Union affairs.
In 1998, Nuland co-founded the neoconservative Project for the New American Century (PNAC) Lobbying organisation.
From 2003 to 2005, Nuland served as the principal Deputy National Security Adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, exercising an influential role during the Iraq War.[citation needed] From 2005 to 2008, during President George W. Bush's second term, Nuland served as U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels, where she concentrated on mobilizing European support for the NATO intervention in Afghanistan.
In the summer of 2011, Nuland became special envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and then became State Department spokesperson.
Victoria Nuland
Victoria Jane Nuland (born July 1, 1961) is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2021 to 2024. A former member of the US Foreign Service, she served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2013 to 2017 and the 18th U.S. ambassador to NATO from 2005 to 2008. Between July 2023 and February 2024, Nuland served as acting deputy secretary of state following the retirement of Wendy Sherman.
Nuland held the rank of career ambassador, the highest diplomatic rank in the U.S. Foreign Service. She is the former CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), serving from January 2018 until early 2019, and is also the Brady-Johnson distinguished practitioner in grand strategy at Yale University and a member of the board of the National Endowment for Democracy. She served as a nonresident fellow in the Brookings Institution's foreign policy program and senior counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group. On March 5, 2024, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that Nuland would retire "in the coming weeks".
Nuland was born in 1961 to Sherwin B. Nuland, a surgeon born to Jewish immigrants from Bessarabia, with the last name Nudelman, and a Christian British native mother, Rhona McKhann, née Goulston.[failed verification] She graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1979. She has two younger half-siblings, Amelia and William. She earned a bachelor of arts degree from Brown University in 1983, where she studied Russian literature, political science, and history. She speaks Russian and French, and some Chinese.
Nuland joined the State Department's Foreign Service in 1984. She served in Guangzhou, China, from 1985 to 1986, in the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in 1987, and helped establish the first U.S. embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in 1988, where she served on the Soviet desk until 1990. From 1991 to 1993, she worked on Russian internal politics at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, focusing on Boris Yeltsin and his government.
From 1993 to 1996, during Bill Clinton's presidency, Nuland was chief of staff to deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott before moving on to serve as deputy director for former Soviet Union affairs.
In 1998, Nuland co-founded the neoconservative Project for the New American Century (PNAC) Lobbying organisation.
From 2003 to 2005, Nuland served as the principal Deputy National Security Adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, exercising an influential role during the Iraq War.[citation needed] From 2005 to 2008, during President George W. Bush's second term, Nuland served as U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels, where she concentrated on mobilizing European support for the NATO intervention in Afghanistan.
In the summer of 2011, Nuland became special envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and then became State Department spokesperson.
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