Rose Gottemoeller

Rose Eilene Gottemoeller (born March 24, 1953) is an American diplomat who served as Deputy Secretary General of NATO from October 2016 to October 2019 under Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Before then she was the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security at the U.S. State Department.

Early life and education Originally from Ohio, Gottemoeller received a B.S. from Georgetown University, and an M.A. from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. She is fluent in Russian.

Before returning to government, she was a senior associate in the Carnegie Russia & Eurasia Program in Washington, D.C., where she worked on U.S.–Russian relations and nuclear security and stability. While with Carnegie, Gottemoeller led consultative Track II meetings with Russian nuclear experts. She also served as the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center from January 2006 to December 2008.

At the State Department (2009–2016)

Gottemoeller was confirmed as Under Secretary of State by the U.S. Senate on March 6, 2014. Prior to her confirmation, she had served as the Acting Under Secretary of State in the same capacity since February 7, 2012, in addition to her role as the United States Department of State's Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, which she held since April 6, 2009. She was the chief negotiator of the follow on for the Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty otherwise known as the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation (in Russia, the treaty is known as START III). Kennedy was the second U.S. ambassador to attend the annual memorial. Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe and representatives of 100 countries were in attendance. Abe reiterated Japan's policy which is in favor of the abolition of nuclear weapons. Japan had hoped for U.S. president Barack Obama to attend the memorial; the country has a standing call for the U.S. to apologize for the bombings.

Gottemoeller greets U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan in Munich in 2018

Deputy Secretary-General of NATO (2016–2019) Gottemoeller became the first female Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on October 17, 2016.

Post-government career After leaving NATO, Gottemoeller joined Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and its Center for International Security and Cooperation as a distinguished lecturer.

Awards Order of the Golden Fleece – Georgia, 2019.