Mona Sutphen
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy |
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In office January 20, 2009 – January 26, 2011 Served with Jim Messina |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Joel Kaplan |
| Succeeded by | Nancy-Ann DeParle |
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| Born | November 10, 1967 |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Clyde Williams |
| Children | 2 |
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Mount Holyoke College London School of Economics |
| Occupation | Partner at Macro Advisory Partners |
| Profession | Foreign Affairs Officer, Consultant |
Mona K. Sutphen (born November 10, 1967) served as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011. She is currently a Partner at Macro Advisory Partners LLP and from 2011-2013 was Managing Director at UBS AG, covering geopolitical risk, macro-policy trends and their impact on the global economy. She has also previously held positions as an American diplomat and served on the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration. She has also been a consultant and is the co-author of The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise.
Sutphen is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated from John Marshall High School there. Her mother was Jewish and her father African American.
She earned her B.A. in international relations in 1989 from Mount Holyoke College and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics.
From 2001-2008 Sutphen was managing director of Stonebridge International, a Washington-based business strategy consulting firm that works with multinational corporations, financial institutions and other organizations on challenges worldwide. She also served as Vice President for Currenex, the first internet-based trading platform for the institutional foreign exchange market.
She has served as a United States Foreign Service officer (1991–2000), serving in the Clinton Administration on the staff of the National Security Council (1998–2000)., She also worked in the State Department's Human Rights bureau, and at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok.
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