Victoria Nuland

Victoria Nuland
Official portrait, 2021
24th Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
In office
May 3, 2021 – March 22, 2024
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byDavid Hale
Succeeded byJohn R. Bass (acting)
Acting United States Deputy Secretary of State
In office
July 29, 2023 – February 12, 2024
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byWendy Sherman
Succeeded byKurt M. Campbell
25th Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
In office
September 18, 2013 – January 20, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
DeputyJohn A. Heffern[1]
Preceded byPhilip H. Gordon
Succeeded byA. Wess Mitchell
22nd Spokesperson for the United States Department of State
In office
May 31, 2011 – April 5, 2013
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byPhilip Crowley
Succeeded byJen Psaki
20th United States Ambassador to NATO
In office
June 20, 2005 – May 2, 2008
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byNicholas Burns
Succeeded byKurt Volker
Personal details
Born
Victoria Jane Nuland

(1961-07-01) July 1, 1961 (age 63)
New York City, New York, U.S.
SpouseRobert Kagan
Children2
EducationBrown University (BA)

Victoria Jane Nuland (born July 1, 1961) is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2021 to 2024. A former member of the US Foreign Service, she served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2013 to 2017 and the 18th U.S. ambassador to NATO from 2005 to 2008.[2][3] Between July 2023 and February 2024, Nuland served as acting deputy secretary of state following the retirement of Wendy Sherman.[4]

Nuland held the rank of career ambassador, the highest diplomatic rank in the U.S. Foreign Service.[5] She is the former CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), serving from January 2018 until early 2019, and is also the Brady-Johnson distinguished practitioner in grand strategy at Yale University and a member of the board of the National Endowment for Democracy. She served as a nonresident fellow in the Brookings Institution's[6] foreign policy program and senior counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group.[7] On March 5, 2024, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that Nuland would retire "in the coming weeks".[8]

  1. ^ "Bureau Senior Officials". U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on January 22, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
  2. ^ "Bureau of Public Affairs Front Office Changes". U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on October 20, 2019. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
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  4. ^ "On the Retirement of Deputy Secretary Sherman". United States Department of State. Retrieved July 28, 2023.
  5. ^ "PN1907 - 2 nominees for Foreign Service, 114th Congress (2015-2016)". December 7, 2016. Archived from the original on October 20, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  6. ^ "Victoria Nuland". April 2, 2019. Archived from the original on June 14, 2021. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  7. ^ "Press Release: Victoria Nuland Rejoins ASG". Albright Stonebridge Group. April 18, 2019. Archived from the original on February 27, 2022. Retrieved April 30, 2019.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference state-20240305 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).