Farah Pandith
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Farah Pandith (born January 13, 1968) is an American academic of Indian descent. She was appointed the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities in June 2009 by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.[1][2][3][4][5] The position was made specifically for her after she briefed Secretary Clinton about her work in the Bush Administration. She had the rare distinction of being a political appointee for two Republican presidents and President Obama. When she was the Special Representative she traveled to almost 100 countries.[2] After serving under both Secretaries Clinton and John Kerry, she left government. She said she came to Washington after 9/11 again and wanted to serve – she left after more than a decade in public service. She worked at USAID and then went to the National Security Council and then the U.S. Department of State.[2] When she left in 2014, she returned to her home state of Massachusetts.
Farah Pandith | |
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Born | (1968-01-13) January 13, 1968 (age 56) |
Education | Smith College (BA) Tufts University (MA) |
Known for | Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the United States Department of State Adjunct Senior Fellow of Council on Foreign Relations |
Website | Official website |
Farah Pandith is a senior fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.[6] Before that she had been a Spring fellow at the Institute of Politics.[7] Right after leaving government she began working with the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue from outside of government. She is currently the Head of Strategy for ISD. She is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.[8]