“How They Got There” with Salvatore Amodeo (MSFS ’97): Featuring Yael Lempert (BSFS/MSFS ‘97), Deputy Chief of Mission @ U.S. Embassy in London
This webinar series, hosted by State Department FSO Salvatore Amodeo (MSFS ’97), will feature bi-monthly hour long discussions of a featured guest’s successful career path. Highlighted will be how their education and experience led them to their career, what factors helped them succeed, and how they overcame challenges faced on their career path.
This week, Sal features Yael Lempert (BSFS/MSFS ‘97). Yael is the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in London. She is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, and has been serving as acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Egypt and North Africa since June 2017. She was the Senior Director for the Levant, Israel and Egypt at the National Security Council from 2014 to 2017, and also served as Special Assistant to the President from 2015 to 2017. Prior to her assignment at the NSC, Yael served for three years as the Deputy Principal Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem. She worked from 2009 to 2011 at the U.S. Embassy in Libya, where she spent more than half of her tour as the Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, including during the February 2011 evacuation of the U.S. citizen community and Embassy personnel. From 2006 to 2009 she was the chief of the Internal Political Affairs Unit at the U.S. Embassy in Egypt. Her other previous assignments include Director for Iraq at the National Security Council (2004); Governance Officer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq (2003); Special Assistant for South Asian and Near Eastern Affairs to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2003); Iraq desk officer; and tours in the Department of State’s Bureau of Nonproliferation and the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai.
Yael earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and is the recipient of several State Department Superior and Meritorious Honor awards, as well as the National Security Council’s Outstanding Service Award, which she received in May 2017.
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