Anne-Marie Slaughter | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Slaughter in 2019 | |
| 25thDirector of Policy Planning | |
| In office January 23, 2009 – January 23, 2011 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | David F. Gordon |
| Succeeded by | Jake Sullivan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1958-09-27)September 27, 1958 (age 67) |
| Spouse | Andrew Moravcsik |
| Education | Princeton University (BA) Worcester College, Oxford (MPhil,DPhil) Harvard University (JD) |
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Anne-Marie Slaughter (born September 27, 1958) is an American lawyer and political scientist, and author. She is the currentpresident andCEO ofNew America (formerly the New America Foundation).
Previously, Slaughter served as the dean ofPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs from 2002 to 2009. From 2009 to 2011, she was thedirector of policy planning for theU.S. State Department underU.S. secretary of stateHillary Clinton, the first woman to hold the position. Later, She also served as a president of the American Society of International Law.
Slaughter has received several awards for her work including: the Woodrow Wilson School R.W. van de Velde Award, 1979; the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law, University of Virginia and Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2007; Distinguished Service Medal, U.S. Secretary of state 2011; Louis B. Sohn Award for Public International Law, American Bar association, 2012.[1] She is also on the global advisory board ofOxford University's journalGlobal Summitry: Politics, Economics, and Law in International Governance.[2]
Slaughter was born inCharlottesville, Virginia to a Belgian mother, Anne Marie Denise Limbosch, and an American father, Edward Ratliff Slaughter Jr., a lawyer.[3][4][5][6] Her paternal grandfather wasEdward Slaughter, a football player, athletic coach, and professor of physical education.[7] She graduated fromSt. Anne's-Belfield School in 1976.[citation needed]
Slaughter attended thePrinceton School of Public and International Affairs, where she graduatedmagna cum laude with anB.A. from in 1980.[8] Mentored by Richard H. Ullman,[9] She received herM.Phil. in international affairs fromWorcester College, Oxford, in 1982 and herJ.D. cum laude fromHarvard Law School in 1985. She received herD.Phil. in international relations from Oxford in 1992.[10][11][12]
Slaughter received honorary degrees from theUniversity of Miami in 2006, theUniversity of Warwick in 2013, andTufts University in 2014.[13] She also received theUniversity of Virginia's Thomas Jefferson Medal in 2007. She is a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Slaughter served on the faculty of theUniversity of Chicago Law School from 1989 to 1994 and then as J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law on the faculty of Harvard Law School from 1994 to 2002. She then moved to Princeton to serve as dean of the Woodrow Wilson School from 2002 to 2009. She became the first woman to hold that position.[14][15] During her deanship, she oversaw the creation of several research centers and academic programs. During the academic year 2007–2008, Slaughter was a visiting fellow at the Shanghai Institute for International Affairs.[16] Following her government service, she returned to Princeton in 2011 as a professor.[17]
In January 2009,U.S. Secretary of StateHillary Clinton appointed Slaughter as thedirector of policy planning.[18][19] She became the first woman to hold this position.[20] In this role, she was chief architect of theQuadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, a report intended to guide the State Department's strategic planning.[21][22]
Slaughter remains a consultant for the State Department and sits on the secretary of state'sForeign Policy Advisory Board.[23]
She began her law career at the corporate firmSimpson Thacher and is currently on the corporate board ofAbt Global (formerly Abt Associates).[24] She was previously on the board of theMcDonald's Corporation and that of theCitigroup Economic and Political Strategies Advisory Group.[4]
In 2011, she was elected to theAmerican Philosophical Society.[25]
In 2013, Slaughter was named president and CEO of theNew America Foundation, a think-tank based in Washington, D.C.[26]
In 2017,The New York Times[27] alleged that Slaughter had closed the Open Markets research group and dismissed its director Barry Lynn because he had criticized Google, a major donor of New America, and called for it to be broken up.[28] Slaughter denied that Open Markets was closed because of pressure from Google and said Lynn was dismissed because he had "repeatedly violated the standards of honesty and good faith with his colleagues."[29] New America co-chairJonathan Soros wrote in a letter that Google had neither "attempted to interfere" nor "threaten[ed] funding" over Open Markets research critical of monopolies.[30] In a letter to New America's board and leadership, 25 former and current New America fellows said that although they had "never experienced any efforts by donors or managers at New America to influence [their] work," they "were troubled by the initial lack of transparency and communication from New America's leadership" and "remained deeply concerned about this sequence of events".[31]
Slaughter has served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations, including theCouncil of Foreign Relations, theNew America Foundation, theNational Endowment for Democracy, theNational Security Network and theBrookings Doha Center. She is a member of the advisory board of the Center for New American Security, the Truman Project, and the bipartisan Development Council of theCenter for Strategic and International Studies. In 2006, she chaired theSecretary of State's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion. From 2004 to 2007, she was a co-director of thePrinceton Project on National Security.[4]
Slaughter has participated inDialog, a secretive, invite-only social club founded byPeter Thiel andAuren Hoffman.[32]
Slaughter has written extensively onEuropean Union politics, network theories of world politics, transjudicial communication, liberal theories of international law and international relations, American foreign policy, international law, and various types of policy analysis. She has written books:International Law and International Relations (2000),A New World Order (2004),The Idea that is America: Keeping Faith with our Values in a Dangerous World (2007), andThe Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century (with G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, and Tony Smith) (2008), as well as three edited volumes on international relations and international law, and over one hundred extended articles in scholarly and policy journals or books.[33]
The article inThe Atlantic became the basis of the 2015 bookUnfinished Business: Women Men Work Family.[34] The book argues that a number of challenges remain for the women's movement in the US. It allows her to expands on her position in the article and respond to her critics. In Unfinished Business, she attempts to create a framework to understand the problems faced by all working parents, not just women.[35]
Since leaving the State Department, Slaughter remains a frequent commentator on foreign policy issues. She has written a regular opinion column forProject Syndicate since January 2012.[36][37]
Slaughter's article titled "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" appeared in the July/August 2012 issue ofThe Atlantic.[23] In the first four days after publication, the piece attracted 725,000 unique readers, making it the most popular article ever published in that magazine.[38][39] In the same period, it received over 119,000 Facebook "Recommends," making it by far the most "liked" piece ever to appear in any version of the magazine. Within several days, it had been discussed in detail on the front page ofThe New York Times[40] and in many other media outlets,[41] attracting attention from around the world.[42] Although Slaughter originally tried to call the article "Why Women Can't Have it All Yet," she has since stated that it was a mistake to use the phrase "Have it All" in general.[43] In 2015, Slaughter clarified that she hoped to stimulate a discussion about a wide range of working mothers, not only those in prestigious or lucrative careers.[44]
Slaughter is married to Princeton politics professorAndrew Moravcsik, with whom she has two children: Alex and Michael Moravcsik.[45][46]
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