Ambassador Susan Rice staffs up in the UN.

Names: Susan Rice staffs up.

Thu, 03/19/2009 - 10:52am
The U.S. mission to the United Nations has made several hires. Among those now working for permanent representative Susan Rice:

* Brooke Anderson, chief of staff, who was previously the national security spokeswoman for the Obama-Biden transition and a counter proliferation expert with the Nuclear Threat Initiative
* Mark Kornblau, communications director, who served as a former Hill aide and Kerry campaign veteran
* Kathleen McGlynn, deputy chief of staff, who worked as the deputy chief of staff to Vice President Biden and as chief of staff to the Edwards 2008 presidential campaign

Three political appointees with long expertise in U.N.-related areas:

* Elizabeth Cousens, principal policy advisor, former vice president of the International Peace Academy. Her research has focused on peace agreements and civil war
* Mike Pan, policy advisor, a former special advisor to the U.N.'s chief prosecutor in Sierra Leone and a national security specialist at the Center for American Progress
* Salman Ahmed, policy advisor, a Princeton professor and a former senior political officer in the U.N. office of the undersecretary-general for peacekeeping

Supporting Rice in Washington:

* Erica Barks-Ruggles, deputy to the permanent rep. and director of the Washington office, a former NSC director for Africa and deputy assistant secretary of state for human rights

* Warren Bass, Rice's speech writer and senior policy advisor, a former Washington Post editor and 9/11 commission staffer
* Jennifer Simon, policy advisor, a former SFRC staffer
* Meridith Webster, deputy chief of staff

Still to be officially named:

* The deputy permanent rep. to the U.N., currently held as is traditional by a career Foreign Service officer, Amb. Alejandro Wolff, whose term has been extended to the summer (a position distinct from deputy to the permanent rep., Barks-Ruggles.)

* The assistant deputy permanent representative for special political affairs, currently filled by Foreign Service officer Amb. Rosemary DiCarlo, who is expected to be succeeded by a political appointee
* The ambassador for economic and social affairs, currently unfilled
* The ambassador for management affairs, also currently not filled