Julianne Smith
Julianne Smith is an American foreign policy advisor and diplomat who serves as the United States Permanent Representative to NATO in the Biden administration. She previously served as deputy national security advisor to then-Vice President Biden in the Obama administration. Education. Smith earned a Bachelor of Arts in communications and French from Xavier University and a Master of Arts in international relations from American University. She also studied French at the University of Paris, Sorbonne for a year and German at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for one year. Career. From 2000 to 2003, Smith worked  as a program officer at the German Marshall Fund. She then joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies as a senior fellow. From 2009 to 2012, she served as the director of European and NATO policy at the United States Department of Defense. From April 2012 to June 2013, she served as deputy national security advisor to then-Vice President Joe Biden. From 2014 to 2018, she worked at the Center for a New American Security. She was also a fellow at the Robert Bosch Stiftung for one year and a senior advisor at WestExec Advisors. The subject was  a co-founder of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security. She was an advisor to a German consultancy called Berlin Global Advisors and prior to her government jobs was at the American Academy in Berlin. A 2021 investigation in "The American Prospect" found that Smith, "who listed Boeing and SoftBank as clients, earned $34,000 as a WestExec consultant while holding down a full-time role at the think tank German Marshall Fund." In January 2021, Smith became a senior advisor to the United States Secretary of State. Representative to NATO. On June 15, 2021, President Joe Biden  nominated Smith to serve as the United States Permanent Representative to NATO. On September 15, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. On October 19, 2021, her nomination was reported favorably out of committee. Her nomination was confirmed by United States Senate on November 18, 2021, after Senator Josh Hawley lifted his hold on her nomination. Smith has written op-ed columns for "The New York Times", Lawfare, "Washington Monthly", "Foreign Affairs", and "The National Interest". She has also appeared on NPR programs, including 1A, "All Things Considered", and "Morning Edition". Personal life . Smith and her husband have two sons. She speaks German and French.