10 Facts About Mona Sutphen

Mona K Sutphen was born on November 10,1967 and was the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011.

Mona Sutphen is currently a Senior Partner and Head of Investment Strategies at The Vistria Group, a Chicago-based private equity firm founded by Marty Nesbitt and Kip Kirkpatrick.

Mona Sutphen held a diplomatic position in the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration.

Mona Sutphen's mother was Jewish and her father African American.

From 2001 to 2008, Mona Sutphen was managing director of Stonebridge International, a Washington-based business strategy consulting firm that works with multinational corporations, financial institutions and other organizations on challenges worldwide.

Mona Sutphen was Vice President of Currenex, a United States Foreign Service officer in the Clinton White House and member of the National Security Council.

Mona Sutphen then worked at the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and at the US Embassy in Bangkok.

Mona Sutphen is a Trustee of Mount Holyoke College and on the advisory board of the Columbia Center for Global Energy Policy.

Mona Sutphen previously was an adjunct professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and is the co-author of The Next American Century: How the US Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise.

Mona Sutphen is married to Clyde Williams, who was President Bill Clinton's domestic policy advisor at his Foundation, as vice president at the Center for American Progress, and as the Democratic National Committee's political director.