Gillian Sorensen is the former United Nations assistant secretary-general for external relations. Sorensen currently works with groups and organizations committed to peace, justice, development, refugees, and human rights. She recently addressed the National Model United Nations (NMUN) (March 2018), attended by students from over 130 countries.
Sorensen currently serves as a member of the board of the International Rescue Committee and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Personal life
Sorensen grew up in
Michigan
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, the daughter of parents who were active in politics and civic affairs.
She is a graduate of
Smith College and studied at the
Sorbonne
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. She has twice been an Institute of Politics Fellow at the
John F. Kennedy School of Government
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at
Harvard University
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.
Gillian Sorensen is the widow of
Theodore C. Sorensen, who served as President
John F. Kennedy's speechwriter and Special Counsel to the President in the White House. They are the parents of a daughter,
Juliet Sorensen.
Notes
References
''NAFSA'' United Nations Foundation Advocate Gillian Sorensen to Headline Third Day of NAFSA Conference"USC" USC Public Diplomacy Fall Speaker Series Public Diplomacy Fall Speaker Series: Gillian Sorensen
External links
Gillian Sorensen interviewed on ''Conversations from Penn State''
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People from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Smith College alumni
University of Paris alumni
Harvard Kennedy School people
University of Southern California faculty
Articles lacking sources from February 2008
Living people
American officials of the United Nations
Year of birth missing (living people)