Rose Gottemoeller
| Rose Gottemoeller | |
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| Deputy Secretary General of NATO | |
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Assumed office October 17, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Alexander Vershbow |
| Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs | |
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In office February 7, 2012 – October 6, 2016 Acting: February 7, 2012 – March 7, 2014 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Ellen Tauscher |
| Succeeded by | Thomas M. Countryman (Acting) |
| Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation | |
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In office April 6, 2009 – March 6, 2014 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Paula DeSutter |
| Succeeded by | Frank Rose |
| Personal details | |
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March 24, 1953 Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education |
Georgetown University (BA) George Washington University (MA) |
Rose Eilene Gottemoeller (born March 24, 1953) is an American diplomat who is the current Deputy Secretary General of NATO, serving under Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. She formerly served in her own country as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security at the U.S. State Department.
Gottemoeller received a B.S. from Georgetown University, and an M.A. from The George Washington University. She is fluent in Russian.
Gottemoeller was confirmed as Under Secretary of State by the U.S. Senate on March 6, 2014. Prior to her confirmation, she had served as the Acting Under Secretary of State in the same capacity since February 7, 2012, in addition to her role as the United States Department of State's Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, which she held since April 6, 2009. She was the chief negotiator of the follow on for the Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty otherwise known as the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation (in Russia, the treaty is known as START III). Since 2000, she had been with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Before returning to government, she was a senior associate in the Carnegie Russia & Eurasia Program in Washington, D.C., where she worked on U.S.–Russian relations and nuclear security and stability. While with Carnegie, Gottemoeller led consultative Track II meetings with Russian nuclear experts. She also served as the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center from January 2006 to December 2008.
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