Wendy Sherman

Wendy Sherman
Official portrait, 2021
21st United States Deputy Secretary of State
In office
April 14, 2021 – July 28, 2023
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byStephen Biegun
Succeeded byVictoria Nuland (acting)
Kurt M. Campbell
Acting
November 3, 2014 – January 9, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byWilliam J. Burns
Succeeded byAntony Blinken
21st Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
In office
September 21, 2011 – October 2, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
SecretaryHillary Clinton
John Kerry
Preceded byWilliam J. Burns
Succeeded byThomas A. Shannon Jr.
26th Counselor of the United States Department of State
In office
August 6, 1997 – January 20, 2001
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byTim Wirth
Succeeded byPhilip D. Zelikow
23rd Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
In office
May 12, 1993 – March 29, 1996
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byJanet G. Mullins Grissom
Succeeded byBarbara Larkin
Personal details
Born
Wendy Ruth Sherman

(1949-06-07) June 7, 1949 (age 75)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseBruce Stokes
Children1
EducationSmith College
Boston University (BA)
University of Maryland, Baltimore (MSW)

Wendy Ruth Sherman (born June 7, 1949)[1] is an American diplomat who served as the United States deputy secretary of state from April 2021 to July 2023. She was a professor of the practice of public leadership and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, a senior counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group, and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.[2]

Sherman, a social worker, served as the director of EMILY's List, the director of Maryland's office of child welfare, and the founding president of the Fannie Mae Foundation. During the Clinton administration, she served as counselor of the United States Department of State from 1997 to 2001. She was also a special advisor to President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the North Korea policy coordinator. In the latter role, she was instrumental in negotiations related to North Korea's nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs.[3]

Sherman served under Hillary Clinton and John Kerry as under secretary of state for political affairs from 2011 to 2015.[4][5] She was the fourth-ranking official in the U.S. Department of State.[6] In that role, Sherman was the lead negotiator for the Iran nuclear deal.[7] After winning the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden nominated Sherman to serve as United States Deputy Secretary of State, under Antony Blinken.[8]

  1. ^ "Wendy R. Sherman". U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. September 21, 2011. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  2. ^ "Wendy R. Sherman". United States Department of State. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
  3. ^ Levkowitz, Alon (2014). "Negotiating with Iran:: Lessons from America's Failed Nuclear Accord with North Korea". Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ Pazzanese, Christina (January 6, 2020). "Wendy Sherman on where we are as Iran shrugs off nuclear deal". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  5. ^ Carter, Cathy (February 17, 2020). "In Sarasota, Obama Official Talks Foreign Policy, Calls Killing Of Iranian General 'A Risk'". WUSF News. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  6. ^ http://www.iop.harvard.edu/wendy-sherman , Harvard Kennedy School.
  7. ^ Wickenden, Dorothy (May 18, 2018). "An Architect of the Iran Deal Sees Her Work Crumbling". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  8. ^ "Wendy Sherman to be US deputy secretary of state".

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