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Anne-Marie Slaughter

Board Member

Anne-Marie Slaughter, who is the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton, was the first woman to hold the position of Director of Policy and Planning at the U.S. State Department. While at the State Department, she led the first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), an assessment of how the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) could become more efficient, accountable and effective.  Upon her departure, she received the Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor conferred by the State Department for her work leading the QDDR. She also received a Meritorious Honor Award from USAID.

In 2002 Slaughter became Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy, where she was credited with rebuilding Princeton's international relations faculty.  She is a prolific writer on international affairs and appears regularly on CNN, the BBC, NPR and PBS, and lectures widely.  Slaughter has served on boards of organizations ranging from the Council of Foreign Relations and the New America Foundation to the McDonalds Corporation and the Citigroup Economic and Political Strategies Advisory Group. In December of 2011, Slaughter was named to the Foreign Affairs Policy Board by Secretary Clinton. The newly constituted Board will meet with the Secretary periodically to discuss issues of high priority.

Slaughter holds an M.Phil. and a D.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She earned her B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.