Nancy Powell/Definition

Director General of the Foreign Service and of human resources for the U.S. Department of State, 2009-; she was U.S. Ambassador to Nepal between 2007 and 2009, and, between 2006 and 2007, National Intelligence Officer for South Asia at the National Intelligence Council, the State Department’s Senior Coordinator for Avian Influenza, and as Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; earlier U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan and U.S. Ambassador to Uganda