Understand That There Might Be A Different View

Madeleine Albright

Mar 28, 2022

Kayla Kim

Knowledge Management and Learning Analyst, United Nations Development Programme

Understand That There Might Be A Different View

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Madeleine Albright: "As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view." — **Madeleine Albright:** *"As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view."*
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Rest in peace to Madeleine Albright, a towering figure in American politics who passed away last week. We're looking back at her complex career this week to learn from her life.

Madeleine Albright (1937 – 2022) was an American public official who served as the American ambassador to the United Nations and the first woman to hold the role of United States secretary of state.

Albright was born in communist Czechoslovakia and immigrated to the United States at the age of 11. After graduating from Wellesley College in 1959 and earning a PhD from Columbia University in 1975, she worked as an aide to Senator Edmund Muskie before taking a position under Zbigniew Brzezinski on the National Security Council.

She then joined the academic faculty of Georgetown University and advised Democratic candidates regarding foreign policy. She helped assemble Bill Clinton's National Security Council, and in 1993, Clinton appointed her United States ambassador to the United Nations, a position she held until being named secretary of state in 1997.

Later she served as chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group, a consulting firm, and was the Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama in May 2012 and served on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Kayla Kim (She/Her)

Knowledge Management and Learning Analyst, United Nations Development Programme

Hello! I was Laidlaw scholar in 2019, and I studied national, regional, and local identity in northern Tajikistan through the lens of women's fashion. For a year after graduating, I worked for the UN Mine Action Service which removes landmines from conflict and post-conflict regions. I then worked for the Laidlaw Foundation 2021-22 and completed a Master's Degree in Anthropology and Development Management at the London School of Economics. Now I'm working with the UN on innovative finance for biodiversity conservation, focusing on marine ecosystems.

Please feel free to reach out on the network, on LinkedIn, or by email. I'm always happy to meet new people and chat.