Rose Gottemoeller

Rose Eilene Gottemoeller (born March 24, 1953) is an American diplomat who served as Deputy Secretary General of NATO from October 2016 to October 2019 under Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. She previously served as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security at the U.S. State Department.

Early life and education

Originally from Ohio, Gottemoeller received a B.S. from Georgetown University, and an M.A. from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. She is fluent in Russian.

Career

In the early years of her career, Gottemoeller was a social scientist at RAND and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. She has taught Soviet military policy and Russian security at Georgetown University.

Clinton NSA (1993-1994)

From 1993 to 1994, she served on the National Security Council in the White House as director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs, with responsibility for denuclearization in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus.

in London (1994-1997)

For three years from 1994, Gottemoeller served as Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

At the DOE (1997-2000)

Gottemoeller first joined the Department of Energy in November 1997 as director of the Office of Nonproliferation and National Security. She rose to become the Deputy Under Secretary of Energy for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the U.S. Department of Energy. She had previously held the post of Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation and National Security, also at the Department of Energy (DOE). At DOE, Gottemoeller was responsible for all nonproliferation cooperation with Russia and the Newly Independent States.

Carnegie Endowment (2000-2008)

From 2000 she worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Before returning to government, she was a senior associate in the Carnegie Russia & Eurasia Program in Washington, D.C., where she worked on U.S.–Russian relations and nuclear security and stability. While with Carnegie, Gottemoeller led consultative Track II meetings with Russian nuclear experts. She also served as the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center from January 2006 to December 2008.

At the State Department (2009-2016)

Gottemoeller was confirmed as Under Secretary of State by the U.S. Senate on March 6, 2014. Prior to her confirmation, she had served as the Acting Under Secretary of State in the same capacity since February 7, 2012, in addition to her role as the United States Department of State's Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, which she held since April 6, 2009. She was the chief negotiator of the follow on for the Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty otherwise known as the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation (in Russia, the treaty is known as START III). Her experience is described in a book, ''Negotiating the New START Treaty'', published by Cambria Press in May 2021.

On August 6, 2015, Gottemoeller became the first senior U.S. official to attend the memorial of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by the United States in World War II. It marked the 70th anniversary of the bombing and Gottemoeller was accompanied by U.S. ambassador Caroline Kennedy, herself being only the second U.S. ambassador to attend the annual memorial. Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe at the memorial, with representatives of 100 countries in attendance, reiterated Japanese policy in favor of the abolition of nuclear weapons. Japan also had hoped for U.S. president Barack Obama to attend the memorial and has a standing call for the U.S. to apologize for the bombings.

Deputy Secretary-General of NATO (2016-2019)

Gottemoeller became the first female Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on October 17, 2016.

Post-government career

After leaving NATO, Gottemoeller joined Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and its Center for International Security and Cooperation as a distinguished lecturer.

Awards

* Order of the Golden Fleece – Georgia, 2019.

References

External links

* Official site of th
Department of State's Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance
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1953 births
American women diplomats
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Georgetown University alumni
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Living people
Obama administration personnel
People from Columbus, Ohio
United States Under Secretaries of State
Recipients of the Order of the Golden Fleece (Georgia)
21st-century American women