Eileen Donahoe Politician

Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe is a former affiliate at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. In November 2009, she was appointed by President Barack Obama as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. (She was the first ambassador following the referent UN body changing from the predecessor United Nations Commission on Human Rights.) After serving her term as ambassador, Donahoe was appointed as Director of Global Affairs for Human Rights Watch. In 2014, she was also appointed to the board of International Service for Human Rights.