Samantha Power

Irish-American academic, author and diplomat · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1970 · age 56

Samantha Jane Power is an Irish-American journalist, diplomat, and government official. She was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017, and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development from 2021 to 2025. Power is a member of the Democratic Party.

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2011Great Immigrants AwardAward2004Time 100Award2003“Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. This resentment may be incurable. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S.”In their wordsArticle in The New Republic (2003), as quoted in the Wall Street Journal.Read the whole statement

“It’s hard to know how to deal with liberalization in cultures that have been repressed for a long time, that don’t have strong civil societies.”In their wordsSamantha Power: How to lose friends and make enemies, Boston Phoenix, 2003.Read the whole statement

Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsAwardJ. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeAwardPulitzer Prize for General NonfictionAward2002National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionAward1970Born21 September 1970

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Power's first portrait as US Ambassador

Power with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on June 5, 2013

Power with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem, February 15, 2016

Power with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C., August 6, 2014

Power with Secretary of State John Kerry at a UN ministerial, October 2, 2015

Power with John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, September 29, 2015

Power, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Representative Tom Malinowski at the funeral of John McCain, September 1, 2018

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Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued....
"Samantha Power on U.S. Foreign Policy", an interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Own words

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