Jane Holl Lute (born 1956) is an American diplomat and security analyst currently serving as the UN special envoy on the

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. She served as the

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from 2009 through 2013, after having been confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 3, 2009. Previously, Lute was the

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Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support. Before that she was Assistant Secretary-General for Mission Support in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations since August 2003. She is the President and CEO of the Arlington-based Council on CyberSecurity and Senior Advisor of Measure, a Drone as a Service company. On January 5, 2014, she was appointed Special Adviser for Relocation of

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Residents Outside of Iraq by

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. On February 8, 2016, she was appointed Special Coordinator on Improving the United Nations Response to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.

Biography

Lute graduated from

Montclair State University Montclair State University (MSU) is a Public university, public research university in Montclair, New Jersey, with parts of the campus extending into Little Falls, New Jersey, Little Falls. As of fall 2018, Montclair State was, by enrollment, ...

in 1978 and received her commission as a

U.S. Army The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cl ...

second lieutenant Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces, comparable to NATO OF-1 rank. Australia The rank of second lieutenant existed in the military forces of the Australian colonies and Australian Army until ...

through

Seton Hall University Seton Hall University (SHU) is a private Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan un ...

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program. She served in the

Gulf War The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Iraq were carried out in two key phases: ...

during

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. In addition, she earned an

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from the

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in 1985, a

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from

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in 1989, and a

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from

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in 2000. She is a member of the Virginia Bar. From 1991 to 1994, she served as director of European Affairs in the National Security Council staff at the White House. Between 1994 and 1999, Lute headed up the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict and was a senior public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars. Prior to joining the UN Secretariat, Lute served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the

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and the Better World Fund, which is established to administer Ted Turner's $1 billion contribution to support the goals of the United Nations. Before that, she served as Executive Director of the Association of the United States Army's project on the role of American Military Power in 2000. On January 23, 2009, President

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...

announced his intention to nominate Jane Holl Lute as

. She was confirmed April 3. She left the department on April 9, 2013. The Undersecretary for

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was named as her acting replacement. Since leaving the Obama administration, Lute has joined as member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council and the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Cyber Security. She is also part of the Atlantic Council's Task Force on a Transatlantic Digital Agenda, a member of the board of directors of the Center for Internet Security, and a member of the board of directors at the George Washington University's Center for Cyber and Homeland Security. Lute also served as a Founding Partner of Cambridge Global Advisors (CGA), a strategic consulting firm focused on

homeland security Homeland security is an American national security term for "the national effort to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards where American interests, aspirations, and ways of life can thrive" to ...

, national security and cyber security issues. Lute is married to Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute, who was appointed in 2007 as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, and has served as the

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from September 3, 2013 to January 20, 2017.Press statement from the White House, Office of the Press Secretary, May 23, 2013

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lute, Jane Holl 1956 births Living people American officials of the United Nations Female United States Army officers Georgetown University Law Center alumni Montclair State University alumni Obama administration personnel Seton Hall University people Stanford University alumni United States Army personnel of the Gulf War United States Deputy Secretaries of Homeland Security Commissioners of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace