Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Linda Thomas-Greenfield is an American diplomat who serves as the United States ambassador to the United Nations under President Joe Biden. She served as the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 2013 to 2017. Thomas-Greenfield then worked in the private sector as a senior vice president at business strategy firm Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington, D.C.
Some of the key events about Linda Thomas-Greenfield
- 1973Earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Louisiana State University
- 1975Received a master's degree in public administration from the University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 1982Joined the U.S. Foreign Service
- 1982Faced challenges as a Black woman in the predominantly white male Foreign Service
- 1994Served as U.S. Ambassador to Liberia
- 2008Became the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs
- 2012Appointed as Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources
- 2012Criticized for the State Department's handling of the Benghazi attack while serving as Director General of the Foreign Service
- 2013Received the Hubert H. Humphrey Public Leadership Award from the University of Minnesota
- 2015Served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
- 2017Became a distinguished resident fellow in African Studies at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University
- 2017Forced out of her position as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the Trump administration transition
- 2021Appointed as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- 2021Faced criticism for comments about racism being "woven into America's founding documents and principles"
- 2021Criticized for the U.S. rejoining the UN Human Rights Council despite concerns about its membership
- 2022Received backlash for abstaining from a UN vote condemning Cuba's human rights record
- 2022Faced criticism for the U.S. response to the Ethiopian conflict in Tigray
- 2023Criticized for the U.S. stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict at the United Nations
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