Ambassador Samantha Power to head USAID

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WASHINGTON, 16 January 2021, (TON):  UN Ambassador Samantha Power has been nominated to run US Agency For International Development (USAID). Samantha Power was born in Dublin in 1970 and is Irish-origin American. She is author of book, A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide which won international prize.

Samantha Power started her career as journalist. She served in the President Barack Hussain Obama’s administration as US ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017. From 2009 to 2013, she served on the National Security Council staff as special assistant to the president and as senior director for multilateral affairs and human rights.

Samantha Power is a good choice as she remained proactive in voicing issues including democracy, human rights and improving living standards of marginalized factions of the societies.

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