1. Esther Diane Brimmer was born on 1961 and is an American foreign policy expert and former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs.
11 Facts About Esther Brimmer
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Esther Brimmer received an honorary doctorate from Pomona College in 2019.
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Esther Brimmer is a graduate of National Cathedral School for Girls, and was one of the first African American students in the sixties at Beauvoir, the National Cathedral Elementary School.
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Esther Brimmer served as a Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and as a Legislative Analyst at the Democratic Study Group in the United States House of Representatives.
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From September 2005 on Esther Brimmer was a visiting professor at the College of Europe.
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Esther Brimmer was nominated to the post of Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs by President Barack Obama on March 11,2009, and was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 2,2009.
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Previously, Dr Brimmer served as Deputy Director and Director of Research at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.
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Esther Brimmer is a member of the Atlantic Council Board of Directors, Council on Foreign Relations, and Women in International Security.
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Esther Brimmer left her post at the State Department in June 2013 to resume her position in academia.
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Esther Brimmer is the daughter of Andrew Esther Brimmer, the first African American to have served as governor of the Federal Reserve System.
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Esther Brimmer has, inter alia, edited Transforming Homeland Security: US and European Approaches, The Strategic Implications of European Union Enlargement, The EU's Search for a Strategic Role: ESDP and Its Implications for Transatlantic Relations and The European Union Constitutional Treaty: A Guide for Americans, and she is the author of The United States, the European Union and International Human Rights Issues.