Kelley Eckels Currie () is an American human rights lawyer and former government official who served as the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues from 2020 to 2021. She previously served as the U.S. Representative to the

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and as the Acting Deputy Representative of the U.S. to the U.N., after Michele Sison's departure. Before assuming her role as Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, she was a senior fellow at the Project 2049 Institute, a think tank focused on security issues and public policy in Central Asia and the Asia-Pacific region. She previously held senior public policy positions with the

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and several international and nongovernmental human rights and humanitarian organizations. Currie also served as foreign operations appropriations associate and staff director of the

Congressional Human Rights Caucus The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) is a bipartisan body of the United States House of Representatives. Its stated mission is "to promote, defend and advocate internationally recognized human rights norms in a nonpartisan manner, both ...

for Representative John Porter. In March 2019, it was announced that President Donald Trump would nominate Currie as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues and representative of the United States on the

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. This nomination was submitted in June 2019 and approved by voice vote of the

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on December 19, 2019. She joined the office in January 2020.

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Biography at Project 2049 Institute
Living people University of Georgia alumni Georgetown University Law Center alumni First Trump administration personnel Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American diplomats American women ambassadors Ambassadors of the United States 21st-century American women civil servants {{US-diplomat-stub