Congratulations to Former WIIS President, Ambassador Laura Holgate, and WIIS Board Member, Anne Witkowsky, on their Presidential Nominations
Ambassador Laura Holgate is Vice President for Materials Risk Management at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), in Washington D.C.. She served as U.S. Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency and Vienna Office of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, in 2016, and previously was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for weapons of mass destruction terrorism and threat reduction on the National Security Council. She has been nominated by President Biden for Representative of the United States of America to the Vienna Office of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and Representative of the United States of America to the International Atomic Energy Agency, with the rank of Ambassador.
Anne Witkowsky most recently served as the Co-Director of the Task Force on U.S. Strategy to Support Democracy and Counter Authoritarianism, a partnership of Freedom House, the Center for Strategic Studies, and the McCain Institute. She has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Stability and Humanitarian Affairs in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, and as the Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Coordinator, and Deputy Assistant Coordinator, in the State Department's Bureau of Counterterrorism. She has been nominated by President Biden for Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations, and Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization. |
