Julianne "Julie" Smith

Julianne "Julie" Smith is an American foreign policy advisor and diplomat who serves as the United States Permanent Representative to NATO in the Biden administration.

Julianne Smith
United States Permanent Representative to NATO
Assumed office
December 6, 2021
PresidentJoe Biden
Personal details
Children2
EducationXavier University (BA)
American University (MA)

Education

Smith earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and French from Xavier University and a Master of Arts in international relations from American University. She also studied French at the University of Paris, Sorbonne for a year and German at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for one year.[1]

Career

From 2000 to 2003, Smith worked as a program officer at the German Marshall Fund. She then joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies as a senior fellow.[2] From 2009 to 2012, she served as the director of European and NATO policy at the United States Department of Defense. From April 2012 to June 2013, she served as deputy national security advisor to then-Vice President Joe Biden.[3] From 2014 to 2018, she worked at the Center for a New American Security. She was also a fellow at the Robert Bosch Stiftung for one year and a senior advisor at WestExec Advisors. A 2021 investigation in The American Prospect [4] found that Smith, "who listed Boeing and SoftBank as clients, earned $34,000 as a WestExec consultant while holding down a full-time role at the think tank German Marshall Fund." In January 2021, Smith became a senior advisor to the United States Secretary of State.[5]

On June 15, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Smith to serve as the United States Permanent Representative to NATO.[5] On June 23, 2021, her nomination was sent to the Senate.[6] On September 15, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.[7] On October 19, 2021, her nomination was reported favorably out of committee.[8] Her nomination was confirmed by United States Senate on November 18, 2021 after Senator Josh Hawley lifted his hold on her nomination.

Smith has written op-ed columns for The New York Times, Lawfare, Washington Monthly, Foreign Affairs, and The National Interest.[9] She has also appeared on NPR programs, including 1A, All Things Considered, and Morning Edition.[10][11][12]

Personal life

Smith and her husband have two sons.[13]

References
  1. "Julianne Smith". www.cnas.org. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  2. "Julie Smith Joins GMF as Director of Asia and Future of Geopolitics Programs". The German Marshall Fund of the United States. 2019-09-03. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  3. "Biden Nominates Envoys To Israel And Mexico — And Hero Pilot To Aviation Post". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  4. "Meet the Consulting Firm That's Staffing the Biden Administration". 6 July 2021.
  5. "President Biden Announces His Intent to Nominate Nine More Individuals to Serve as Ambassadors". The White House. 2021-06-15. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  6. "Nominations Sent to the Senate". The White House. 2021-06-23. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
  7. "PN736 - Nomination of Julianne Smith for Department of State, 117th Congress (2021-2022)". www.congress.gov. 2021-10-19. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
  8. "SFRC APPROVES 33 CRITICAL FOREIGN POLICY NOMINATIONS" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. October 19, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  9. "Articles by Julianne Smith | The New York Times, Financial Times, Time Magazine Journalist | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  10. "U.S. Wants NATO to Step Up in Afghanistan". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  11. "Europe's "Existential Threat" : 1A". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  12. "Trump's Tough Talk On German Defense Spending Is Straining A Decades-Long Friendship". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  13. "Getting to know EMPA commencement speaker Julianne Smith". Hertie School. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
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