Kelley Eckels Currie
Kelley Eckels Currie is an American lawyer and government official who currently serves as the Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. She served as the Acting Deputy Representative of the U.S. to the U.N., after it was vacated by Michele Sison. Prior to assuming her current role, she was a senior fellow with the Project 2049 Institute, a think tank focused on security issues and public policy in Central-Asia and the Asia-Pacific region. She previously held senior public policy positions with the United States Department of State and several international and non-governmental human rights and humanitarian organizations. Currie also served as foreign operations appropriations associate and staff director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus for Representative John Porter.
In March 2019, it was announced that Currie would be nominated by the Trump administration as the next Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues and representative of the United States on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. This nomination was submitted in June 2019 and approved by voice vote of the U.S. Senate on December 19, 2019. She joined the Office in January, 2020.
