Alice Patterson Albright (born 1961) is an American government official who has served as the CEO of the

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since 2022.

Early life and education

Albright is a daughter of former

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Madeleine Albright Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic ...

. Her grandfather,

Josef Korbel Josef Korbel (; September 20, 1909 – July 18, 1977) was a Czech-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as Czechoslovakia's ambassador to Yugoslavia, the chair of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan, and then as a p ...

, was

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's ambassador to

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

, Chairman of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan, and a political scientist at the

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, where he founded the

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. Her father,

Joseph Albright Joseph P. Albright (November 8, 1938 – March 20, 2009) was an American jurist who first served on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia from 1995 to 1996. In November 2000, he was elected to the Supreme Court of Appeals for a full ...

, was a journalist and grandson of newspaper magnate

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, who founded ''

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''. She is a descendent of Joseph Medill, who owned the ''

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'' and had been elected

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and is the namesake of

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's Medill School of Journalism. She received her MIA from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

's School of International and Public Affairs and her BA from

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Career

She held a variety of positions in Citicorp, Bankers Trust Company, JP Morgan, and the

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prior to entering the nonprofit sector. From 2001 to 2009, she served as the Chief Financial and Investment Officer for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, where she worked on enhancing immunization services in the poorest countries. From 2009 to 2013, she served as Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. In 2013, she joined the Global Partnership for Education as CEO.

MCC nomination

On August 6, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Albright to be CEO of the

. Hearings were held by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on her nomination on December 14, 2021. The committee favorably reported the nomination to the Senate floor on January 12, 2022. Her nomination was confirmed by the

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via voice vote on February 7, 2022.

References

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