Rose Gottemoeller

Rose Gottemoeller
Deputy Secretary General of NATO
Incumbent
Assumed office October 17, 2016
Preceded by	Alexander Vershbow
Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs
In office February 7, 2012 Acting: February 7, 2012 – March 7, 2014 – October 6, 2016
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Ellen Tauscher
Succeeded by	Thomas M. Countryman (Acting)
Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation
In office April 6, 2009 – March 6, 2014
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Paula DeSutter
Succeeded by	Frank Rose
Personal details
Born	(1953-03-24) March 24, 1953 Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater	Georgetown University George Washington University

Rose Eilene Gottemoeller (born March 24, 1953) is an American diplomat who is the current Deputy Secretary General of NATO, serving under Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. She formerly served in her own country as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security at the U.S. State Department.

Education

Gottemoeller received a B.S. from Georgetown University, and an M.A. from The George Washington University. She is fluent in Russian.^[1]

Career

United States career

Gottemoeller was confirmed as Under Secretary of State by the U.S. Senate on March 6, 2014. Prior to her confirmation, she had served as the Acting Under Secretary of State in the same capacity since February 7, 2012,^[2] in addition to her role as the United States Department of State's Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, which she held since April 6, 2009.^[3] She was the chief negotiator of the follow on for the Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty otherwise known as the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation (in Russia, the treaty is known as START III).^[4][5][6] Since 2000, she had been with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.^[6]

Before returning to government, she was a senior associate in the Carnegie Russia & Eurasia Program in Washington, D.C., where she worked on U.S.–Russian relations and nuclear security and stability. While with Carnegie, Gottemoeller led consultative Track II meetings with Russian nuclear experts. She also served as the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center from January 2006 to December 2008.^[1]

Gottemoeller was formerly the Deputy Under Secretary of Energy for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the U.S Department of Energy. She had previously held the post of Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation and National Security, also at the Department of Energy (DOE). At DOE, Gottemoeller was responsible for all nonproliferation cooperation with Russia and the Newly Independent States. She first joined the Department of Energy in November 1997 as director of the Office of Nonproliferation and National Security.^[1]

Prior to her work at the Department of Energy, Gottemoeller served for three years as Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. From 1993 to 1994, she served on the National Security Council in the White House as director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs, with responsibility for denuclearization in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus. Previously, she was a social scientist at RAND and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. She has taught Soviet military policy and Russian security at Georgetown University.

On August 6, 2015, Gottemoeller became the first senior American official to attend the memorial of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by the United States in World War II. It marked the 70th anniversary of the bombing and Gottemoeller was accompanied by US ambassador Caroline Kennedy,^[7] herself being only the second US ambassador to attend the annual memorial. Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe at the memorial, with representatives of 100 countries in attendance, reiterated Japanese policy in favor of the abolition of nuclear weapons. Japan also had hoped for US president Barack Obama to attend the memorial and has a standing call for the US to apologize for the bombings.^[8]

NATO

Gottemoeller became the first female Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on October 17, 2016.^[9]

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Department of State website http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/index.htm (Background Notes).

External links

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• Official site of the Department of State's Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance
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