Assumed his function as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 1 September 2014; anticipated departure from post is August 2018

He was the sixth High Commissioner to have been appointed by the General Assembly since the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights was established in 1993

Served as Jordan’s Permanent Representative to the UN in New York for 11 years, in two periods between 2000-2014

In January 2014, was President of the UN Security Council

Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor for security and defense policy at The German Marshall Fund of the United States

Author of The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America’s Role in the World

Former U.S. assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs

Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota

Affiliated faculty at the University of Minnesota Law School

Represented the 15th District of Pennsylvania in the U.S. Congress

Senior policy advisor at DLA Piper

Contributor on CNN

Specializes in international relations theory, international security, and international organizations

Served as assistant secretary-general and special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2001 to 2003

Senior fellow and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Peace Institute since 1996

Assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Drexel University and specializes in International Relations

Former Postdoctoral research fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University

Leading expert on U.S. and international economic sanctions and national security issues

Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C.

Lawyer, Private Practice

Professor of Law at Washburn University School of Law

Co-Director of the Washburn Law International and Comparative Law Center

Served in the Canadian Armed Forces as a Naval Officer

Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at Stanford University

Bernard and Susan Liautaud Visiting Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) at Stanford University

Was appointed the twenty-sixth National Security Advisor by United States President Donald Trump on February 20, 2017.

Author of the award-winning book Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam.

Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at the School of International Service, American University, and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Contributing Opinion Writer for the New York Times

Served President Barack Obama as National Security Advisor and U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations. In her role as National Security Advisor from July 1, 2013, to January 20, 2017, Ambassador Rice led the National Security Council Staff of approximately 400 defense, diplomatic, intelligence and development experts.

Served as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy in the Trump Administration

Author of the book, War and the Art of Governance, published by Georgetown University Press in 2017

Adjunct instructor at the Sacred Heart University

Former United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Plans within the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Forces

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs

Former Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy

Joined the Obama Administration on day one, serving from 2009 to 2013 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council and from 2013 to 2014 as White House Coordinator for Defense Policy, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Arms Control

Worked at Stanford University, at Harvard University, and at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School

Former Philadelphia’s City Solicitor

Named in "100 Most Influential Philadelphians," by Philadelphia Magazine, and “Best of the Bar,” by the Philadelphia Business Journal

Confirmed as the 32nd Deputy Secretary of Defense on April 30, 2014

Served as Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

From 2009 to 2013, served as the Undersecretary of the Navy

In 2008, served on President-elect Barack Obama’s Department of Defense Transition Team as leader of the Department of the Navy issues team