Madeleine K. Albright
U.S. Interests, U.S. Achievements

Madeleine K. Albright was appointed United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations at the rank of Cabinet officer by President Clinton in January 1993. She is also a member of the National Security Council. Ambassador Albright presented her credentials at the United Nations on Feb. 1, 1993.

Ambassador Albright has served since 1989 as president of the Center for National Policy, a nonprofit research organization that promotes study and discussion of domestic and international issues. She has been Research Professor of International Affairs and Director of Women in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service since 1982.

Before her work at Georgetown University, Ambassador Albright participated in an international competition that resulted in her being awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars to write about the role of the press in political changes in Poland in 1980-82. She was Senior Fellow in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in 1981 and was an adjunct fellow at the institution from 1981 to 1990.

Ambassador Albright's previous experience in government includes service from 1978 to 1981 as a staff member of the National Security Council and White House responsible for foreign policy legislation and from 1976 to 1978 as chief legislative assistant for Senator Edmund Muskie.

Ambassador Albright received both an M.A. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1976) from Columbia University's Department of Public Law and Government. She was graduated with honors from Wellesley College in 1959 with a B.A. in political science. Her writings include "Poland, the Role of the Press in Political Change," "The Role of the Press in Political Change: Czechoslovakia 1968," and "The Soviet Diplomatic Service: Profile of an Elite."

Ambassador Albright speaks and reads French, Czech, Russian, and Polish.