Michele Flournoy
| Michèle Flournoy | |
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| Under Secretary of Defense for Policy | |
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In office February 9, 2009 – February 8, 2012 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Eric Edelman |
| Succeeded by | James Miller |
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| Born |
Michèle Angelique Flournoy December 14, 1960 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Scott Gould |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University Balliol College, Oxford |
Michèle Angelique Flournoy (born December 14, 1960) is the former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, the seventh-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Defense, and in that role served as a principal advisor to U.S. Secretaries of Defense Robert Gates and Leon Panetta from February 2009 to February 2012. When the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination on February 9, 2009, she was at the time the highest-ranking woman at the Pentagon in the department's history.
She currently serves as a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group and as a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She also serves as CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), which she co-founded with Kurt M. Campbell in 2007.
Flournoy's father George Flournoy was a cinematographer who worked shows like I Love Lucy and The Odd Couple. He died of a heart attack when Michele was 14 years old. Flournoy attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California. She studied at Harvard College where she received a bachelor of arts degree. She received an M.Litt. in international relations in 1983 from Oxford University, where she was a Newton-Tatum scholar at Balliol College. From 1989 until 1993 she was at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she was a Research Fellow in its International Security Program.
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