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About Catherine Russell
- Catherine Russell took office as executive director at UNICEF in 2022 when she was 60. She leads a 20,000-person organization that works in more than 190 countries to provide humanitarian aid to children.
- In her first year at the helm, the agency raised $10 billion and 37.9 million children and adolescents accessed education, and 365.3 million children under age five benefited from malnutrition prevention programs.
- Before coming to work for UNICEF, Russell served as assistant to the president and director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel for the Biden administration.
- From 2013 to 2017, she was ambassador-at-large for global women's issues at the State Department, where she led the agency in integrating women's issues into U.S. foreign policy.
- As chief of staff to Dr. Jill Biden during the Obama administration, Russell led an interagency effort to develop the first U.S. strategy to combat gender-based violence across the globe.
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