Wendy Chamberlin

Career

US Department of State

• 1975 – Foreign Service officer
• Various offices:
• *Office of Israel and Arab-Israeli Affairs
• *Acting Director of Regional Affairs
• *Director of Press and Public Affairs in the Near Eastern Affairs Bureau
• * Special Assistant for South Asian Affairs to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs
• * Staff worker for Deputy Secretary of State and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs
• 1993 – 1996 – Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• 1996 – 1999 – Ambassador to Laos.
• 1999 – July, 2001 – Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the
• July 18, 2001 – June, 2002 – United States Ambassador to Pakistan.

  USAID

• December 2, 2002 – Appointed Assistant Administrator. Served as head of the USAID Asia and Near East Bureau.
• December 22, 2003 – Ends tenure with USAID to move to UNHCR.

  UN High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR)

• December 12, 2003 – Appointed as Deputy High Commissioner on Refugees by High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers.
• January 19, 2004 – Officially welcomed as Deputy High Commissioner.
• February 24 – June 2, 2005 – Appointed as acting High Commissioner on the retirement of Ruud Lubbers. Served until the appointment of former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres.
• February 25, 2005 – Called for donations and humanitarian aid to prevent suffering in South Sudan.
• April 1–22, 2005 – Toured refugee camps in Sudan and Chad, where women expressed their fears of returning home. She urged Sudan to protect its own citizens.
• April 25, 2005 – Speaking from Geneva, she emphasized the need for funding and to bring security to the war-torn region of Darfur in Sudan.
• June 22, 2005 – Presented the Nansen Refugee Award to Marguerite "Maggie" Barankitse, known as the "Angel of Burundi."
• April 16–21, 2006 – Traveled to Pakistan to view earthquake survivors and Afghan refuge camps.
• December 18, 2006 – Visits refugee camps in Kenya where Somalis have fled both war and flooding.

  Middle East Institute

• March 1, 2007 – Assumes presidency of the Middle East Institute.