Victoria Nuland

Ambassador Victoria Nuland was sworn in as under secretary for political affairs in April 2021. Prior to that, she was senior counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategic advisory and commercial diplomacy firm based in Washington, D.C. She was also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, distinguished practitioner in grand strategy at Yale University, and a member of the board of the National Endowment for Democracy. She was CEO of the Center for a New American Security, a bipartisan national security think tank in Washington, from January 2018 until February 2019.