Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
President Biden nominates lesbian to ambassador-level post
metroweekly.compress release on July 2, praises Wong as a “leading authority in international development policy with over 30 years of experience in the multi-disciplinary field that includes finance, technology, and the environment.”Wong, who holds a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a master’s in environmental engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, previously served as chief financial officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation — a position for which she was nominated by former President Barack Obama — the budget director at NASA, and acting budget director of the U.S.
