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Candidates in the running so far all have US citizenship and include: Rajiv Shah head of the Rockefeller Foundation and former head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID); Samantha Power former US ambassador to the United Nations current head of USAID; Chief executive of the One campaign and former aide to President Barack Obama Gayle Smith; Mafalda Duarte chief executive officer of the $11 billion Climate Investment Funds; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala former finance minister of Nigeria and current director-general of the World Trade Organization (Dispatches 9/2/21 Okonjo-Iweala to take over as WTO chief within days)...
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Also important is Enough's network of friends in government such as National Security Advisor Susan Rice; the Ambassador to the United Nations and former genocide activist Samantha Power; and the Administrator of the US Agency for International Development Gayle Smith who worked in Sudan in the 1980s...
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Last year President Issayas Aferworki was dismissive of the peacemaking efforts of Susan Rice (Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs) and Gayle Smith (presidential adviser on Africa)...
Others in the US delegation such as Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Susan Rice and Special Assistant to the President for Africa Gayle Smith scheduled several meetings on Congo-K as regional moves towards a tentative ceasefire progressed...
Susan Rice and National Security Council Senior Director for African Affairs Gayle Smith...
Rice’s experience on the NSC has helped coordination with the White House's Africa team – Gayle Smith Erica Barks-Ruggles and Robin Sanders – and with the State Department...
In fact it has just strengthened this policy by appointing Gayle Smith to Susan Rice's old job as Special Assistant to the President for African Affairs...
Highly regarded Washington Africanists Howard Wolpe and Gayle Smith led the advance team to organise the Kampala summit; it aims to build on Secretary Albright' s December visit and launch a multi-lateral Central African strategy to fill the much-criticised international policy vacuum following the overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko last May...