

Her impressive resume includes Assistant Secretary posts with the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services; and 10 years as executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme. She is now a professor of public administration at Syracuse University and a senior fellow at the Bill Gates Foundation, where she is advancing agricultural development in Africa.

| BA Political Science |
1970 | 1986 | 1992 | 1996 | 2002 |
| Campaign Staff Nelson Rockefeller for Governor | Fellowship Kennedy School of Government Harvard University | Executive Director United Nations World Food Programme | Named one of the 'World's Most Powerful Women' by the Times of London | Under Secretary General for Management United Nations |