Goli Ameri
| Goli Ameri | |
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| Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies |
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In office July 1, 2010 – July 1, 2012 |
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| Succeeded by | Joelle Tanguy |
| Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs | |
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In office March 19, 2008 – January 20, 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Dina Powell |
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September 26, 1956 Tehran, Iran |
| Nationality | Iranian-American |
| Political party | Republican |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Education | Stanford University (B.A., 1977), (M.A., 1979) |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
Goli Ameri (in Persian: گلی عامری; née Goli Yazdi; born September 26, 1956) is an American diplomat and businesswoman. She is the President and CEO of the Center for Global Engagement, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering engagement between U.S. society and the rest of the world with a view to promoting shared values and common interests and increasing mutual understanding and respect. She is the former Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. She is also the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. She ran for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in 2004, and is a former U.S. Representative to the United Nations.
Ameri was born in Tehran, Iran. She came to the United States as a student in 1974 to attend Stanford University. There, she earned a B.A. in Communications and French Literature and, later, her M.A. in Communications. She also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She became a U.S. citizen in 1989. She has two sons.
Ameri was founder and president of eTinium, Inc., a telecommunications consulting firm in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of over fifty market studies and wrote a bi-monthly industry analysis column for Telephony magazine. She has been quoted in such publications as The National Business Journals, The Oregonian, The Seattle Times, The San Jose Mercury News, and Internet Week and has been invited as a speaker and moderator to industry conferences worldwide. Prior to founding eTinium, Ameri was a director at U.S. Leasing, a former division of Ford Credit and Fleet Bank, in San Francisco.
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