Virginia L. Bennett
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Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Acting |
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Assumed office January 20, 2017 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Tom Malinowski |
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Wellesley College (BA) Cornell University (MBA) |
| Occupation | Foreign Service Officer |
Virginia L. Bennett is an American diplomat and career Senior Foreign Service Officer who currently serves as the acting Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. In addition, she has served since 2014 as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
Bennett attended Wellesley College and earned a Master of Business Administration from Cornell University.
Bennett is a career Senior Foreign Service Officer, and served in her early career at the US embassies in Bogotá, Colombia, Tokyo, Japan, and Manila, Philippines. She also worked in New York City at the United States Mission to the United Nations, in Washington, DC, in the United States Department of State Operations Center, and in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. From 2009 to 2011, she was Deputy Exectuve Secretary of the State Department under Secretary Hillary Clinton, and later served as Executive Assistant and Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte. From 2011 to 2014, she served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Athens, Greece.
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