Victoria Nuland

Victoria Nuland is the U.S. representative to NATO. 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 neocon ideologue Robert Kagan, with whom she has two children, David and Elena. She is also the daughter of Yale professor Sherwin B. Nuland.

Career

A career Foreign Service officer, 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.

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.

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.

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