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A Belfer Center Director's Seminar
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Seminar with Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
Acting Under Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller was the chief negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation, an historic success in arms control ratified by the Senate in December 2010. Her diplomatic skills coupled with her expertise on Russia have earned her respect across party lines and across national boundaries.
In it's June 2nd, 2009 issue, Russian security journal VPK published an article by its editor-in-chief, Igor Korotchenko, who said about Secretary Rose Gottemoeller,
"...She has an 'inside' knowledge of Moscow's logic and its approach to the negotiating process. Gottemoeller has been dealing with nuclear issues for quite some time and is known as a brilliant professional. It would be difficult, almost impossible to outplay her. For Russia a draw would be almost like a victory."
On March 6th of 2012, it was announced that Gottemoeller was designated by President Obama as Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. She remains in her role as Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance to which she was sworn in on April 6th, 2009.
She is the author of a new round of arms talks, which U.S. officials call "strategic stability talks," and just returned from a trip that took her to Vienna, Moscow, Tallinn, and London, where she focused on the future of conventional arms control in Europe.
Prior to her current positions in the State Department, Rose 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.
Formerly she was Deputy Undersecretary of Energy for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation and before that, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation and National Security, Rose was responsible for all nonproliferation cooperation with Russia and the Newly Independent States. She first joined the Department of Energy in November 1997 as director of the Office of Nonproliferation and National Security.
Prior to her work at the Department of Energy, Rose served for three years as Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. 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. Previously, she was a social scientist at RAND and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. She has taught on Soviet military policy and Russian security at Georgetown University.
Secretary Gottemoeller received a B.S. from Georgetown University, and a M.A. from George Washington University. She is fluent in Russian.
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