Biography of Mara Rudman
Assistant Administrator for the Middle East Bureau
Prior to USAID, Mara Rudman was a deputy envoy and chief of staff for the Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace. She served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary to the National Security Council under President Obama from January through May 2009. From 2005-2009, she was the President of Quorum Strategies, LLC, an international strategic consulting firm, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where she focused on national security issues and advised Middle East Progress. She served as a deputy national security advisor and National Security Council chief of staff to President Clinton from 1999-2001, and earlier in her career, as chief counsel to the House Foreign Affairs Committee under Chairman Lee Hamilton (D-IN). She also has worked as a vice president and general counsel for The Cohen Group, a Washington-based consultancy founded by former Secretary of Defense William Cohen; and she worked previously for Rep. Gerry E. Studds (D-MA).
She is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School and a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College.
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