Wendy Sherman: podcast appearances and interviews

Wendy Ruth Sherman is an American diplomat who served as the United States deputy secretary of state from April 2021 to July 2023. She has held various significant roles in government and academia, including serving as a professor of the practice of public leadership and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Sherman has also been a senior counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her career includes leadership positions in social work, such as director of EMILY's List, director of Maryland's office of child welfare, and founding president of the Fannie Mae Foundation. During the Clinton administration, Sherman served as counselor of the United States Department of State from 1997 to 2001 and was a special advisor to President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In this capacity, she was a North Korea policy coordinator and played a key role in negotiations related to North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. Sherman also served under Secretaries Hillary Clinton and John Kerry as under secretary of state for political affairs from 2011 to 2015, being the fourth-ranking official in the department and the lead negotiator for the Iran nuclear deal. Her extensive diplomatic career has been marked by participation in important international negotiations and policy-making efforts.