Rose GOTTEMOELLER
She was the chief U.S. negotiator
of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which entered into
force on February 5, 2011. Prior to the Department of State, in
2000, she became a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, where she also served as the Director of the Carnegie
Moscow Center (January 2006 – December 2008). In 1998-2000, Deputy Undersecretary
of Energy for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation and before that, Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation and National Security, she was
responsible for all nonproliferation cooperation with Russia and the
Newly Independent States. Prior to her work at the Department
of Energy, Ms. Gottemoeller served for 3 years as Deputy Director of the
International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. From 1993 to 1994, she served on the
National Security Council staff as Director for Russia,
Ukraine,
and Eurasia Affairs. Previously, she was a social scientist at RAND and a
Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. Ms. Gottemoeller received a B.S.
from Georgetown University,
and a M.A. from George
Washington University.