Mara Rudman

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Mara E. Rudman
Senior Adviser to the House Foreign Affairs Committee
In office
1993–1997
Deputy National Security Advisor and
Chief of Staff for the National Security Council
In office
1999–2001
PresidentBill Clinton
Deputy National Security Advisor for the National Security Council, Deputy envoy and chief of staff for the Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace and Assistant Administrator for the Middle East at the United States Agency for International Development
In office
2009–2013
PresidentBarack Obama
Personal details
BornSan Antonio, Texas, United States
Alma materDartmouth College
Harvard Law School
Occupationdiplomat, nonprofit executive, lecturer

Mara Rudman (also known as Mara E. Rudman) is an American diplomat, lecturer, and executive. She is the Center for American Progress Executive Vice President for Policy.[1]

Early life and education

Mara Rudman was born in San Antonio, Texas, and raised in Hyannis, Massachusetts.[2] She received her undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Dartmouth College and a JD degree cum laude from Harvard Law School.[3]

Career

Politics

Mara Rudman started her career as an assistant to her hometown congressman United States House of Representatives Gerry Studds.[4] From 1993 to 1997, Rudman served as legal counsel to the House Foreign Affairs Committee under Chairman Lee Hamilton (D-IN).[5] [6][7] From 1999 to 2001, [8] From 1999 to 2001, she served as a deputy national security advisor to President Clinton and chief of staff for the National Security Council. Later in her career under President Obama she again served as a deputy assistant to the President for national security affairs as executive secretary for the National Security Council. She then became deputy envoy and chief of staff for the Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace at the State Department, and later served as Assistant Administrator for the Middle East at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) .[9][3] In the latter roles, Rudman worked to ease tension between Israel and Palestine.[10] [11]

Executive

Mara Rudman was the senior vice president for strategic planning at the Center for American Progress (CAP) from 2004 to 2009, and then became a senior fellow at CAP and the founder of Middle East Progress. She joined [1] The Cohen Group, a Washington-based consultancy founded by former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, as vice president and general counsel in 2001.[12] She also served as chief operating officer for the International Commission on Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC), working with ICHEIC chairman the Honorable Lawrence Eagleburger.[13] She re-joined the Center for American Progress as its new executive vice president for policy in 2020,[14] and released her statement of implementation of cross-organization strategies, including pandemic response and recovery initiatives.[15] Mara Rudman is founder of the international strategic consulting firm Quorum Strategies.

Academics

Mara Rudman serves on the Board of Overseers of the College of Arts and Sciences of Howard University. She participated in the “Leading Voices in Politics and Public Policy” lecture series at Dartmouth College.[16] She has served as a Diplomat in Residence at American University, Dartmouth and George Washington Universities.[17][3] She was an editor-in-chief of Harvard Law School's Human Rights Journal.[4]

Honor and recognition

Articles

  • A Practical Plan on the Israeli-Palestinian Front[21]
  • A More Perfect Union[22]
  • Reflecting on the historic Israel-Jordan peace agreement – "Doing the right thing may be hard, but necessary"[23]
  • No Mere Oversight[24]
  • Why Institution Building in the West Bank is Critical for a Palestinian State[25]
  • Making national security work better: Starting with hostage response[26]
  • Redefining Homeland Security: A New Framework for DHS To Meet Today’s Challenges[27]
  • Opinion: To rebuild the economy, America needs a new social contract[28]

References

  1. ^ a b "Mara Rudman". Center for American Progress. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Biography of Mara E. Rudman". clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "Mara Rudman". American University. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Mara Rudman '84". dartmouthalumnimagazine.com. March 1993. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Mara Rudman". Haaretz. 15 Jul 2007. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  6. ^ "Mara Rudman". Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  7. ^ "Mara Rudman". www.americanprogressaction.org. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  8. ^ "President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts, 2/16/2011". The White House. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  9. ^ "Obama alumni reunited as Biden fills out Cabinet". The Christian Science Monitor. 14 December 2020. ISSN 0882-7729. Archived from the original on 17 March 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  10. ^ "Making an Economic Difference in the Middle East". tuck.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  11. ^ "Mara Rudman: Likely Nominee for USAID Assistant Administrator Post". Devex. 9 February 2011. Retrieved 8 Oct 2022.
  12. ^ "MARA E. RUDMAN SWORN IN AS ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE MIDDLE EAST". USAID Press Office. 26 September 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  13. ^ "Holocaust claims program progressing toward goal". Business Insurance. 1 February 2004. Retrieved 8 Oct 2022.
  14. ^ a b "RELEASE: Mara Rudman to Join the Center for American Progress as Executive Vice President of Policy". The Center for American Progress. 7 Jan 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  15. ^ "STATEMENT: American Rescue Plan Is Essential to Crush the Coronavirus and Mitigate Economic Pain". Center for American Progress. 14 Jan 2021. Retrieved 8 Oct 2022.
  16. ^ "Find Your Mentors, Mara Rudman '84 Tells Dartmouth Students | Dartmouth". home.dartmouth.edu. 17 August 2011. Archived from the original on 19 April 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  17. ^ a b "Georgetown University Faculty Directory". gufaculty360.georgetown.edu. Archived from the original on 19 April 2022. Retrieved 8 Oct 2022.
  18. ^ "Membership Roster". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  19. ^ "Bennett Essay Prize Winners". Dartmouth College. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  20. ^ "Front Cover | Dartmouth Alumni Magazine | March 1993". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine | The Complete Archive. Archived from the original on 2022-04-19. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  21. ^ "A Practical Plan on the Israeli-Palestinian Front". Center for American Progress. 21 Dec 2016. Retrieved 8 Oct 2022.
  22. ^ "A More Perfect Union". Center for American Progress. 13 Jan 2021. Retrieved 8 Oct 2022.
  23. ^ "Reflecting on the historic Israel-Jordan peace agreement – "Doing the right thing may be hard, but…". Medium. 25 July 2019. Retrieved 8 Oct 2022.
  24. ^ "No Mere Oversight". Center for American Progress. 13 Jun 2006. Retrieved 8 Oct 2022.
  25. ^ "Why Institution Building in the West Bank is Critical for a Palestinian State | USAID Impact". blog.usaid.gov. 15 March 2013. Retrieved 8 Oct 2022.
  26. ^ Kulat, Cathi (2 July 2015). "Making national security work better: Starting with hostage response". Retrieved 8 Oct 2022.
  27. ^ "Redefining Homeland Security: A New Framework for DHS To Meet Today's Challenges". American progress. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  28. ^ "Opinion: To rebuild the economy, America needs a new social contract". Center for American Progress Action. 31 August 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
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