Samantha Power

Irish-American academic, author and diplomat

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“Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.”

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President: Joe Biden
Preceded by: Gloria Steele (acting)
Succeeded by: Jason Gray (acting)
Deputy: Rosemary DiCarlo , Michele J. Sison
Born: Samantha Jane Power , ( 1970-09-21 ) September 21, 1970 (age 55) , London , England , UK

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Samantha Jane Power (born September 21, 1970) is an Irish-American journalist, diplomat, and government official. She was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017, and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development from 2021 to 2025. Power is a member of the Democratic Party.

Power began her career as a war correspondent covering the Yugoslav Wars before entering academic administration. In 1998, she became the Founding Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, where she later served as the first Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy until 2009. She was a senior adviser to Senator Barack Obama until March 2008.