Paula A. DeSutter
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Paula DeSutter | |
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Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation | |
| In office August 14, 2002 – January 16, 2009 | |
| Succeeded by | Rose Gottemoeller |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1958 (age 65–66) |
| Education | ) |
Paula Adamo DeSutter (born 1958)
DeSutter was educated at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, receiving a B.A. in political science in 1979, and an M.A. in economics in 1983.[2] She then attended the University of Southern California and received an M.A. in international relations.[2]
While at USC, DeSutter was a graduate intern for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.[2] (ACDA) She joined ACDA's Verification and Intelligence Bureau after graduate school. DeSutter was first a Foreign Affairs Specialist, then Chief of the Compliance and Implementation Division, and finally Special Assistant for Verification and Compliance to the Assistant Director for Intelligence and Verification.[3]
Desutter was then chosen to represent the ACDA at the National War College, from which she received an M.S. in national security strategy.[3] She then spent a year at the National Defense University as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at its Center for Counter-Proliferation Research.[4]
In the late 1990s, DeSutter joined the staff of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.[4] There she was the staff liaison to Senator Jon Kyl and was responsible for legislation and oversight of intelligence collection, analysis and activities related to proliferation, terrorism, arms control, the Persian Gulf States, India, Pakistan, China, and Afghanistan.[4]
In 2002, President of the United States
2015 nuclear agreement with Iran
DeSutter was the lead author of a September 2015 letter to President Obama signed by 56 arms control experts objecting to the July 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran (formally known as the
Works
- Denial and Jeopardy: Deterring Iranian Use of NBC Weapons (National Defense University Press, 1998)
References
- ^ "Paula A. De Sutter (1958–)". Department of State. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
- ^ a b c Jennifer Lawson & Cate Weeks, "Leaving Gut Reactions Behind", UNLV Magazine, Summer 2006
- ^ a b State Dept. Profile
- ^ a b c Senate Committee on Intelligence Profile
- ^ DeSutter Biography, State Department website Accessed September 14, 2015