Cheryl Benard | |
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| Born | 1953 (age 70–71) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, researcher |
| Education | University of Vienna (PhD) American University of Beirut (BA) |
| Genre | Fiction, non-fiction |
| Spouse | Zalmay Khalilzad |
| Children | Alexander Benard Maximilian Benard |
Cheryl Benard (born 1953) is an American-Austrian writer and novelist as well as political and social scientist. She is the wife of Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Afghanistan and Iraq. She and Khalilzad have two sons, Alexander Benard and Maximilian Benard.