Rose Gottemoeller
Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance (since April 2009)
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On a visit to a Russian nuclear site in the late 1990s, Gottemoeller was handed a pail of plutonium. "Basically, they have buckets on the floor anyone could walk in and pick them up and carry them out," she told the New York Times in May 2001. It is her choice anecdote for skeptics who don't think Russian facilities still pose a threat. "We must stem the nuclear flow at its source," she wrote in the L.A. Times in November 2001.
Gottemoeller has spent her career addressing nuclear non-proliferation as a member of the Energy Department, the Carnegie Endowment and now as assistant secretary of state for Verification and Compliance. Though she is a lifelong Democrat, the Russia expert is respected by Republicans and officials in Moscow as an intelligent negotiator with a deep knowledge of the issues.
- Career History: Director, Carnegie Endowment's Moscow Center (2006 to 2008); Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment (2001 to 2006); Assistant Secretary for Non-Proliferation and National Security, Energy Department (1997 to 2001)
- Hometown: Columbus, Ohio
- Alma Mater: Georgetown, B.S. (Russian); George Washington University, M.A.
- Spouse: Raymond Arnaudo
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