Isobel Coleman
| Isobel Coleman | |
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| United States Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform | |
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Assumed office December 19, 2014 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Joe Torsella |
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Princeton University New College, Oxford |
Isobel Coleman is currently the U.S. Representative to the United Nations for UN Management and Reform with the rank of ambassador. She was previously a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (2002-2014), CEO of a healthcare recruitment company (2000-2002), and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company (1991-2000).
Coleman is a graduate of Mamaroneck High School in Mamaroneck, NY and Princeton University, magna cum laude (1987). At Princeton, she majored in East Asian Studies and earned her BA degree in public policy and international affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School. As a Marshall Scholar, she attended Oxford University (1987-1990) where she completed M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees in international relations. She is married to Dr. Struan Coleman, an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery, who is also the team physician for the New York Mets. They live in New York with their five children.
Coleman started as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co in New York in 1992 and was elected partner in the firm’s financial institutions group in 1998. At McKinsey, she worked primarily with global financial service firms, including insurance, reinsurance and credit card companies, global wholesale and retail banks. She also worked with the McKinsey Global Institute and in a pro-bono capacity with the New York City Board of Education. She left McKinsey to become Chief Executive Officer of NursingHands, Inc., a web-based business that provided continuing education, e-commerce and job placement for healthcare professionals. Coleman sold NursingHands in 2002 to strategic investor Jobson PLC, which merged the company with its multimedia property NurseWeek. In 2004, the combined business was bought by the media company Gannett.
Returning to international affairs, Coleman became a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where she focused on the political economy of the Middle East. In 2002, she founded CFR’s Women and Foreign Policy program to focus foreign policy attention on the importance of improving the status of women around the world. In 2010, she became the founding director of CFR’s Civil Society, Markets and Democracy program.
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