Victoria Nuland

Victoria Nuland has been US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs since September 18, 2013.Victoria Nuland, US Department of State, accessed 21 February 2014.
She served as Vice President Dick Cheney's deputy national security adviser from July 2003 to May 2005. She is married to Robert Kagan, the co-founder of Project for the New American Century. 
==Background==
===Personal===
She graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1979, has a B.A. from Brown University and is married to neoconservative historian Robert Kagan, with whom she has two children, David and Elena. She is also the daughter of Yale professor Sherwin B. Nuland.
===Career===
Nuland is career Foreign Service officer.Victoria Nuland, US Department of State, accessed 21 February 2014.
From 1993 to 1996, Ambassador Nuland was Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of State.Victoria Nuland, US Department of State, accessed 21 February 2014.
From 1997 to 1999, she was Deputy Director for former Soviet Union affairs at the United States Department of State, with primary responsibility for U.S. policy towards the Russian Federation and the Caucasus countries. In that capacity, she was awarded the Secretary of Defense's Distinguished Civilian Service medal for her work with the Russians during the Kosovo bombing campaign.
Nuland was the Deputy Permanent Representative to NATO from July 2000 to July 2003. There she was instrumental in NATO's invocation of Article 5 of its charter – "an attack on one ally is an attack on all" – in support of the United States after September 11, 2001. She also worked intensively on the enlargement of the Alliance to include seven new members, the creation of the NATO-Russia Council, NATO's first deployment "out of area" to Afghanistan and its defense of Turkey during the invasion of Iraq. 
She was Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Cheney from July 2003 until May 2005, where she worked on 'democracy promotion' in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and the broader Middle East. 
Ambassador Nuland was the 18th United States Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from 2005 to 2008. As NATO Ambassador, she focused heavily on strengthening Allied support for the ISAF mission in Afghanistan, on NATO-Russia issues, and on the Alliance’s global partnerships and continued enlargement.
She subsequently served on the faculty of the National War College.
Ambassador Nuland was Special Envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe from February 2010 until June 2011.Victoria Nuland, US Department of State, accessed 21 February 2014.
She was twice a visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations -- as a “Next Generation” Fellow looking at the effects of anti-Americanism on U.S. relations around the world, and as a State Department Fellow directing a task force on “Russia, its Neighbors and an Expanding NATO.”Victoria Nuland, US Department of State, accessed 21 February 2014.
==Controversy==
In February 2014, a leaked recording of a sensitive conversation between Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, sparked controversy because of Nuland's blunt criticsm of the EU.Patrick Smith, Nuland: The Message Beneath the Vulgarity, Foreign Policy in Focus, 21 February 2014.
==Affiliations==
*Council on Foreign Relations
*Office of the Vice President
==References==
* Official Biography – from the U.S. State Department
* Victoria Nuland biography – from the U.S. NATO Mission website
* U.S. NATO Mission website
==Notes==
Nuland, Victoria