For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
February 22, 2001
Statement by the Press Secretary
National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice announced the
appointment of Dr. Jendayi E. Frazer as Special Assistant to the
President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National
Security Council.
Dr. Frazer comes to the NSC from Harvard University, where she has been
serving as an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy
School of Government. As a Council on Foreign Relations
International Affairs Fellow, she served as a political-military
planner with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Department of Defense,
and as Director for African Affairs at the National Security
Council. She has also worked on African security issues with
the State Department's International Military Education Training
programs and the United Nations Development Program. Dr.
Frazer was a visiting fellow at the Center for International Security
and Arms Control at Stanford University; a research associate at the
Institute for Development Studies at the University of Nairobi, Kenya;
a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of International
Studies, University of Denver; and editor of the journal Africa Today.
Dr. Frazer graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in political
science and African and African-American Studies, M.A.s in
international policy studies and international development education
and a Ph.D. in political science.
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