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Nancy Jo Powell (born 1947, Cedar Falls, Iowa) was the United States Ambassador to India from April 2012 to May 2014. Powell was Director General of the United States Foreign Service, a position she assumed after serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Nepal. Powell is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service.
Mar 31, 2014 · Nancy Powell stepped down as the U.S. envoy to India in 2014 amid tensions over the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York. The row strained the bilateral relationship and affected trade, security and political ties between the two countries.
Feb 13, 2014 · U.S. Ambassador Nancy J. Powell today met with Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Gandhinagar. This meeting was part of the U.S. Mission’s outreach to senior leaders of India’s major political parties in advance of the upcoming national elections.
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FSJ: What were your first two overseas postings? Were they a good introduction to the Service for you? If so, how? NJP:I joined the Foreign Service and went all the way to Ottawa. It turned out to be an excellent introduction as I rotated through the consular, political and economic sections. It allowed me to learn about the Foreign Service culture...
FSJ: During your tenure as Director General (2009-2012), State launched Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Diplomacy 3.0 hiring initiative. What was your role in that effort, and how did it go? NJP:Diplomacy 3.0 had started before I became DG, but it faced serious problems of coordinating recruiting, on-boarding, assigning and training the new hires. Prin...
FSJ: When you joined the Foreign Service 40 years ago, it was far less diverse than it is today. Did you ever feel you were treated differently as a woman hailing from the Midwest who had not attended an Ivy League school? If so, how did you handle that? NJP: The senior officer who welcomed my A-100 class to the State Department told a sexist joke ...
FSJ: While you officially retired from the Foreign Service in 2014, you have been going full speed ahead since then. Tell us how you came to be the State Department’s Ebola coordinator, and what that entailed. (And thank you again for sharing your experiences in the article, “Fighting Pandemics: Lessons Learned,” with Gwen Tobert for our May focus ...
Learn about the distinguished Foreign Service career of Ambassador Nancy J. Powell, the first female U.S. ambassador to India and a leader in pandemic disease response. Read her interview with the Foreign Service Journal on her journey from Iowa teacher to diplomatic leader.
Apr 1, 2014 · The US ambassador to India, Nancy J Powell, Monday announced that she had resigned and was returning home soon, less than four months after India-US relations nosedived over the arrest and alleged ill-treatment of Indian consul-general in New York, Devyani Khobragade.
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Feb 14, 2014 · US Ambassador Nancy Powell met Gujarat Chief Minister and the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Thursday and discussed a range of subjects, signalling the end of a nine-year boycott of Modi by Washington following the 2002 riots.
Feb 13, 2014 · U.S. Ambassador Nancy J. Powell today met with Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Gandhinagar. This meeting was part of the U.S. Mission’s outreach to senior leaders of India’s major political parties in advance of the upcoming national elections.
