Education
Gottemoeller received a Bachelor of Surgery from Georgetown University, and an Master of Arts from The. She is fluent in Russian.
Gottemoeller received a Bachelor of Surgery from Georgetown University, and an Master of Arts from The. She is fluent in Russian.
Gottemoeller was confirmed as Under Secretary of State by the United States. 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 Strategic Arms Reduction Talks) with the Russian Federation (in Russia, the treaty is known as Strategic Arms Reduction Talks III).
Since 2000, she had been with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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.
Gottemoeller was formerly the Deputy Under Secretary of Energy for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the United States Department of Energy. She had previously held the post of Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation and National Security, also at the Department of Energy (Department of Energy).
At Department of Energy, Gottemoeller was responsible for all nonproliferation cooperation with Russia and the Newly Independent States.
She first joined the Department of Energy in November 1997 as director of the Office of Nonproliferation and National Security. Prior to her work at the Department of Energy, Gottemoeller served for three years as Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. From 1993 to 1994, she served on the National Security Council in the White House as director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs, with responsibility for denuclearization in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus.
Previously, she was a social scientist at Research and Development and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow.
She has taught Soviet military policy and Russian security at Georgetown University. On August 6, 2015, Gottemoeller became the first senior American official to attend the memorial of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by the United States in World World War World War II lieutenant marked the 70th anniversary of the bombing and Gottemoeller was accompanied by United States ambassador Caroline Kennedy, herself being only the second United States ambassador to attend the annual memorial.
Japan"s prime minister Shinzo Abe at the memorial, with representatives of 100 countries in attendance, reiterated Japanese policy in favor of the abolition of nuclear weapons. Japan also had hoped for United States president Barack Obama to attend the memorial and has a standing call for the United States to apologize for the bombings.